Student Learning Assessment

General Education Assessment

In 2019, the New Mexico Higher Education Department (NM HED) implemented a new model for general education courses including a change in course numbering as well as the introduction of “essential skills”, or five skills that every student should be able to demonstrate upon successful completion of NNMC general education curriculum. NNMC faculty define these skills as follows: 

1. Communication: Deliver versatile information in a clear manner, demonstrating an understanding of audience and content in response to a diverse range of situations.
2. Quantitative Reasoning: Calculate, represent, apply, analyze, and communicate both quantitative and qualitative information.
3. Critical Thinking: Interpret, analyze, and evaluate claims to identify well-reasoned and substantiated arguments.
4. Personal & Social Responsibility: Cultivate an awareness of peoples’ cultures, examine social norms and power relations, apply ethical and moral reasoning, and recognize that complex identities are a source of individual and social strength with the ultimate goal of positively contributing to society through diversity, inclusion, and equity. 
5. Information & Digital Literacy: Reflectively locate, organize, analyze, and evaluate information across multiple platforms or media in order to apply that information to a defined question or problem.

Assessment at NNMC relies on an increasingly robust data collection, analysis, and evaluation with the goal of continuous improvement. General Education Essential Skills will be assessed on a yearly rotation:

Key: DC = Data Collection; E=Evaluate; IP=Improvement Plan; PI = Plan Implementation