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Northern New Mexico College

What we are...

Who we serve...

Daniel McLaughlin

Assessment Director

(505) 747-2226

djm@nnmc.edu

What it is!

Click here to access the revised institutional assessment plan, with revision highlights, that includes feedback from the Faculty Senate.

Click here for a clean version of the IAP without the revision highlights.

Next steps for the IAP include adoption by the Faculty Senate, AQIP Council, and Board of Regents.

Minutes of the SLAC meeting of April 21 may be accessed here.

Assessment

Thought for the day

"Forgetting to make a curriculum map!"
- Susan Hatfield, Assessment Coordinator, Winona State University

in "Really Big Assessment Mistakes"

Classroom Assessment Techniques

WEAVEonline

Access to the College's WEAVEonline page

2007-2008 program priorities

Rubric for completing the loop in WEAVE

Institutional Assessment Plan

Northern's Institutional Assessment Plan (adoption in progress)

Template for Program Review (downloadable MS Word doc)

Student Learning Achievement Committee

Membership

Charter

Meeting minutes

Assumptions and Frameworks

NNMC assessment glossary. Assessment terms and descriptions of program assessment measures.

Assessment levels. Distinguishes program-level assessment from classroom, course, and institution-level assessment.

Nine principles of good assessment practice. Framework for thinking about assessment.

Assessment from Faculty point of view. From insidehighered.com, advocating for bottom-up, faculty ownership of assessment.

Statement of Principles on student learning and accountability just released by AACU and Council on Higher Education.

Tools

Assessment resources. Handbooks, accreditation criteria, plans, and tools.

Writing program mission statements. Tips plus lots of examples.

Behavioral verbs. For writing student learning outcomes.

Definitions of behavioral verbs for learning outcomes. Verbs for explicit, observable behaviors.

Examples of behavioral verbs and student activities. Examples of good student learning outcomes.

Rubrics. Rubrics for assessing many different student learning activities.

Porfolios. Generic portfolio guidelines and rubric.

Surveymonkey. Link to the Assessment Office's account.

Cool teaching tips!

General Education

General Education competencies. Published by the New Mexico Higher Education Department.

General Education matrix. Common Core requirements for all higher education institutions in New Mexico.

Framework for General Education assessment. Framework by statewide task force to assess general education.

Report form for General Education assessment. Report form for publishing results of General Education assessment.

General Education requirements. An up-to-date list of General Education courses at NNMC.

Fun

Herding cats. What assessment is like!

Three Stooges Do Phonics. Ideas for teaching oral and written communication.

Don't Give Up. Music video by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush.