CNM General Education Assessment Plan
General Education Essential Skills:
The SAAC assessment process includes annual reporting for all general education content areas. Each of the essential skills associated with a content area, as shown in the table below, must be assessed at least twice during a planned, six-year cycle, and at least one essential skill must be assessed each year. For every general education course, at minimum a representative sample of the student enrollment must be assessed at least once during the six-year cycle.
Since SAAC holds that faculty, as subject matter experts, are the best judges of measure appropriateness, SAAC leaves the selection and design of assessment tools to the discretion of the schools. Content faculty are encouraged to work collaboratively in the planning, assessment, and interpretation of findings and to draw upon multiple measures of student performance, including direct and indirect, internal and external, and quantitative and qualitative assessment approaches.
For more information about the statewide general education model, please see the General Education description on the website of the Higher Education Department.
General Education Content Areas |
Skills Associated with the Content Areas |
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Communications |
Communication, Critical Thinking, Information & Digital Literacy |
| Mathematics |
Communication, Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning |
| Science | Critical Thinking, Personal & Social Responsibility, Quantitative Reasoning |
| Social & Behavioral Sciences | Communication, Critical Thinking, Personal & Social Responsibility |
| Humanities | Critical Thinking, Information & Digital Literacy, Personal & Social Responsibility |
| Creative and Fine Arts | Communication, Critical Thinking, Personal & Social Responsibility |
| Multidisciplinary |
Any three of the following: Communication, Critical Thinking, Information & Digital Literacy, Personal & Social Responsibility, Quantitative Reasoning |
Click here for a complete list of Program Learning Outcomes and General Education content area essential skills.