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General Education Assessment Plan
NMC's approach to assessing the effectiveness of its General Education program is three prong:
Authentic Assessment - Artifact Methodology - measures NMC's goal that near-graduates will perform sufficiently on the outcomes.
Standardized Testing - CAAP Critical Thinking Test Methodology - measures value-added in critical thinking skills
Perceptions of Learning - Graduate Follow-Up Survey - measures Graduate perceptions of learning every year
Schedule
2008-2009
- Critical Thinking Artifacts (collecting spring semester, scoring May 2009)
- CAAP Critical Thinking Test (administering February 2009)
- Graduate Follow-up Survey (administered June 2008 and Dec 2008)
2009-2010
- Communications Artifacts (collecting fall 2009, scoring January 2010)
- Graduate Follow-up Survey (administered June 2009 and Dec 2009)
Results
Assessment Coordinator analyzes results, interprets, and synthesizes. Information is disseminated to Curriculum Committee and Educational Services Instructional Management Team to modify curriculum.