Current Activities

In 2014, UCM updated its general education curriculum including updating ten areas of understanding, known as competencies. In order to capture the student learning of ten UCM General Education competencies, university has used three major assessment measures: General Education Assessment (GEA), Modified VALUE rubric and National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). GEA and Modified VALUE rubrics serve as the direct assessment measure of student learning outcomes and NSSE serves as an indirect assessment measure of student learning outcomes. 

The assessment results are discussed annually with university committees such as Academic Council, University Assessment Council and General Education Committee.

Program Assessment follows the CQIP Model, the University Quality Initiative. In addition to major steps in the program assessment cycle, the university also embeds best practices of assessment activities in the process. Below is the annual update in university program assessment practice for the past three years.

CQIP + Best Practice	2015-2016	2016-2017	2017-2018
Deadline	Early in Spring	October 30th	Sep 15th
SLOs	Measurable	Measurable +Validated by advisory Board	Measurable +Validated by advisory Board
Curriculum Map	N/A	Simple (Assessed Point)	Full (all courses in the curriculum) and key wordsof program and course SLOs
Measures	Formative and Summative	Formative and Summative	Formative and Summative
Results	Descriptive analysis	Descriptive analysis + Discuss with faculty	Descriptive analysis + Discuss with faculty, chair and advisory board
Actions	Actions +Evidence of Improvement	Actions +Evidence of Improvement	Actions +Evidence of Improvement

 

In addition, all programs were self-reviewed by program coordinators and peer reviewed by university and college assessment committee. The feedback from peer review is used for improving the assessment plan and report for the next year.