Introduction

Following the work of a state-wide task force (see http://provost.nmsu.edu/state-wide-gen-ed/)，修订了新墨西哥州公立大学的通识教育模式 促进通识教育课程的转学，并注重基本技能 为了在毕业后的努力中取得成功，毕业生将需要(表1) 1).  详情可在新墨西哥州高等教育部(HED)网站上找到 (http://hed.state.nm.us/resources-for-schools/public_schools/general-education).   These changes will be instituted starting in Fall 2019.  A critical component 其中一项工作是评估学生在这些基本技能方面的学习.

TABLE 1. ALIGNMENT OF ESSENTIAL SKILLS WITH GENERAL EDUCATION CONTENT AREAS

CONTENT AREA	Essential Skills Associated with Content Area
Communication	Communication  Critical Thinking  Information and Digital Literacy
Mathematics	Communication  Critical Thinking  Quantitative Reasoning
Science	Critical Thinking  Personal and Social Responsibility  Quantitative Reasoning
Social and Behavioral Science	Communication  Critical Thinking  Personal and Social Responsibility
Humanities	Critical Thinking  Information and Digital Literacy  Personal and Social Responsibility
Creative and Fine Arts	Communication  Critical Thinking  Personal and Social Responsibility

From: NM HED website: http://hed.state.nm.us/resources-for-schools/public_schools/general-education.

365彩票在线过滤将其通识教育核心课程要求视为基础 为所有本科生提供广泛而有意义的教育经验. The 365彩票在线过滤通识教育核心课程要求学生做好准备 良好的沟通和推理，评估和应用信息，了解人类社会 文化，加深他们的价值观和道德感，丰富他们的个人生活. 此外，通识教育核心课程要求学生具备 分析，语言，科学和数学技能所必需的具体 degree requirements of their majors. The courses and their sequence in the general 教育核心课程要求是专门为实现这些目标而设计的 objectives and to prepare students for success in subsequent courses.

由于365彩票在线过滤的STEM重点，我们也有研究所的要求 specify required courses that must be completed prior to graduation (i.e., specific calculus, chemistry, physics, and English classes).  These courses can be used to satisfy general education requirements.  For example, at New Mexico Tech it is advisable 为学生使用数学131(微积分)来满足通识教育的数学 requirement.  我们的通识教育评估过程假设学生遵循以下原则 this approach.  Students transferring to New Mexico Tech from another New Mexico public 修读其他课程以满足其通识教育要求的院校 这些课程是否可以获得通识教育学分 to satisfy the Institute requirements.

Plan for Assessment of General Education

在与各部门的代表进行了一系列的会议后 the general education core (i.e., Communications, Liberal Arts and Social Sciences; Business and Technology Management; Chemistry; Mathematics; Physics; Psychology and 365彩票在线过滤制定了一项评估通识教育的新计划 program.  该计划假定学生正在学习学院要求的课程 以满足他们的一般学位要求(见引言部分的讨论).

Methodology

个别学术部门将对其贡献的课程进行评估 to the general education program.  These separate assessments will focus on the essential skills corresponding to their content areas (see Table 1).  In doing so, the programs 将执行映射到组件的学习结果的单独评估 根据新墨西哥高等教育的规定，为每个相关的基本技能提供相应的技能 Education Department (Tables 3 - 7).

每个项目将提交一份单独的报告给NMT学术事务办公室 the schedule described above.  As part of their reports they will indicate the percentages of students in the following standardized categories for each of the component skills: high skill level, intermediate skill level, low skill level.

 

TABLE 3.  COMPONENT SKILLS FOR THE ESSENTIAL SKILL OF COMMUNICATION (PROGRAMS WILL ASSESS ALL COMPONENT SKILLS)

Genre and Medium Awareness, Application, and Versatility	识别和沟通各种类型和媒介(口头，书面和数字) using strategies appropriate for the rhetorical situations (i.e., attending to audience, purpose, and context).
Strategies for Understanding and Evaluating Messages	Apply strategies such as reading for main points; seeking key arguments, counterarguments, rebuttals; locating supportive documentation for arguments; reading with a specific stakeholder lens; applying a theoretical lens (e.g. cultural, political, economic) 根据修辞情境(听众)理解和评价信息; purpose, and context).
Evaluation and Production of Arguments	Evaluate the authority of sources in their own arguments and those of others; distinguish 在支持的主张、不支持的主张、事实、推论和意见中. In arguments, 将对他们自己的声明的支持与所使用的来源的信息集成在一起 并以道德和适当的方式被引用(使用MLA等主要引文系统) APA).

From: NM HED website (http://hed.state.nm.us/resources-for-schools/public_schools/general-education).

 

TABLE 4.  定量推理(程序)基本技能的组成技能 WILL ASSESS ALL COMPONENT SKILLS)

Communication/Representation of Quantitative Information	用符号、图形、书面或口头表达定量信息 language.
Analysis of Quantitative Arguments	解释、分析和批判他人提供的信息或推理.
Application of Quantitative Models	将适当的定量模型应用于现实世界或其他情境问题.

From: NM HED website (http://hed.state.nm.us/resources-for-schools/public_schools/general-education).

 

TABLE 5.  COMPONENT SKILLS FOR THE ESSENTIAL SKILL OF CRITICAL THINKING (PROGRAMS WILL ASSESS ALL COMPONENT SKILLS)

Problem Setting	Delineate a problem or question. Students state problem/question appropriate to the context.
Evidence Acquisition	识别和收集解决问题所需的信息/数据.
Evidence Evaluation	Evaluate evidence/data for credibility (e.g. bias, reliability, and validity), probable truth, and relevance to a situation.
Reasoning/Conclusion	制定结论，解决方案和结果，反映了一个知情的，合理的 evaluation.

From: NM HED website (http://hed.state.nm.us/resources-for-schools/public_schools/general-education).

 

TABLE 6.  个人和社会责任的基本技能的组成技能 (PROGRAMS WILL ASSESS 2 OF THE 5 COMPONENT SKILLS)

Intercultural reasoning and intercultural competence

Sustainability and the natural and human worlds

Ethical Reasoning

Collaboration skills, teamwork and value systems

Civic discourse, civic knowledge and engagement – local and global

From: NM HED website (http://hed.state.nm.us/resources-for-schools/public_schools/general-education).

 

TABLE 7.  信息和数字素养基本技能的组成技能 (PROGRAMS WILL ASSESS 3 OF THE 4 COMPONENT SKILLS)

Authority and Value of Information	认识到信息的权威和价值是相互依赖的 在选择、使用和创建信息时，合理地使用这些知识.
Digital Literacy	在数字环境中理解、沟通、计算、创造和设计.
Information Structures	选择、使用、产生、组织和共享适当的信息 formats, collections, systems, and applications.
Research as Inquiry	参与一个反复的探究过程，定义一个问题或提出一个问题 and through research generates a reasonable solution or answer.

From: NM HED website (http://hed.state.nm.us/resources-for-schools/public_schools/general-education).

除了项目层面的评估结果分析外，还有NMT评估 Task Force will analyze data from all of the programs.  Standardizing the skill-level 如上所述的报告将促进基于汇编、分析和行动的工作 on the campus-wide data set.

Reporting

结果进行了项目层面的评估和全校范围的评估 通识教育课程将包括在年度NMT学生评估中 学习报告，通过电子邮件与所有教职员工共享，并发布在 the NMT Assessment of Student Learning website (http://e5p2ma.nenmobile.com/academicaffairs/assessment/index.php).