CPM Assessment Knowledge Assessment for Management Skills Based on AMA Book of Knowledge

Abstract

This project is to establish a test bank and evaluate its efficacy and effectiveness to improve the management knowledge, skills, and competency of students graduating from a STEM program. This project is to make students better prepare for AMA’s Professional Management Certification exam. This project shows that many students of management-related majors graduating from New York University do not have the adequate management capacity and skills. A test bank is a useful tool to help students to have a better understanding of their learning outcome and progress. This test bank can help faculty and course teachers to modify and improve their curriculum. Background – While higher education institutions are to equip students with the hard and soft skills to allow them to have a better preparation for the highly competitive labor market, many higher education institutions fail to do so, so many employees complain that higher education institutions should do more to improve the knowledge, skills, and competencies of students graduating from colleges or universities. The AMA Certified Professional in Management Exam is an important certification exam for managers or prospective managers. Although AMA provides lots of resources for people to learn, many of them do not know if they are competent enough to pass this certification exam. Research questions -- We asked several questions for this research. 1) if students of management-related majors graduating from New York University have the adequate management capacity and skills; 2) what could schools do to help these students to improve their management capacity and skills to pass a management certification exam; 3) if a test bank is a useful tool to help students to have a better understanding of their learning outcome and progress, according to which they could improve their learning outcomes; 4) if this test bank can help faculty and course teachers to modify and improve their curriculum. Methods-- This project invites students participating in the Applied Projects capstone course in Spring 2021 and 16 of them participated and completed this project. Index Terms – hard skills, soft skills, management competencies, certification