Academic Foundations

2022-2023 Assessment Plan

 

Broad Learning Goals for Critical Text Analysis
Adapted from the AAC&U Value Rubrics

A. READING:  Students will demonstrate the ability to comprehend, analyze, interpret, and understand the context and implications of written content and text passages. UNM SLG: SKILL

B. PROBLEM SOLVING: Students will demonstrate knowledge of different approaches to problem-solving by identifying problems, practicing multiple strategies to minimize and eliminate issues, and monitoring and evaluating solutions. UNM SLG: SKILL

C. ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITY: Students will recognize their own learning values that include maturing in educational experiences by expanding a knowledge base or skills, pursuing opportunities relevant to continual learning, initiating curiosity, formulating learning goals, and evaluating one's own individual learning process.  UNM SLG: RESPONSIBILITY

 

Broad Learning Goals for Foundational Math
Adapted from the AAC&U Value Rubrics

A. QUANTITATIVE LITERACY:  Students will illustrate the ability to calculate and solve mathematic problems, convert numerical data, explain information presented in mathematical forms, and draw conclusions based on qualitative analysis. UNM SLG: SKILL

B. ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITY: Students will recognize their own learning values that include maturing in educational experiences by expanding a knowledge base or skills, pursuing opportunities relevant to continual learning, initiating curiosity, and formulating learning goals, and evaluating one's own individual learning process.UNM SLG: RESPONSIBILITY


 

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The University of New Mexico Student Learning Goals *

 University of New Mexico students will develop the following aptitudes and habits of mind in the course of their general and major study at UNM:

  •  KNOWLEDGE of human cultures and the natural world, gained through study in the sciences and mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages and the arts.
  •  SKILLS, both intellectual and applied, demonstrated in written and oral communication, inquiry and analysis, critical and creative thinking, quantitative literacy, information literacy, performance, teamwork and problem solving.
  •  RESPONSIBILITY, both personal and social, that will be manifested in civic knowledge and engagement, multicultural knowledge and competence, ethical reasoning and action, and foundations and skills for lifelong learning.

 

                                                                                                                                                                               

                               

∗ The University of New Mexico has adopted this set of common learning goals to guide the development of assessment rubrics across its several campuses. They are based on the liberal education outcomes articulated by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, a consortium of the nation’s leading liberal arts and research institutions dedicated to “making excellence inclusive” and “taking responsibility for the quality of every student’s liberal education.