Welcome to Resources for Student Learning!
The resources here are designed to promote optimum student learning and development at NTU through planning, assessment, and reporting processes based on Diné Philosophy of Education, accreditation criteria, and best practices.
Student Learning Coordinator
dmclaughlin@navajotech.edu
Program Assessment
Assessment is the process of establishing learning goals, providing learning opportunities, assessing student learning, and using results to implement improvements. The process is ongoing. It follows the logic of the Life Principles of Diné Philosophy of Education: Nitsáhákees (critical thinking), Nahat’á (planning), Iiná (implementation), and Sih Hasin (reflection). This takes place for every certificate and degree program.
Templates
- Program Assessment Plan
- Program Course Sequencing
- Program Course Planner
- Student Learning Report
- Syllabus (with new attendance policy, updated 10-12-2020)
- Lesson Plan
- Checklist Rubric
- Descriptive Rubric
Academic Prompts with Rubrics
- Algebra Project
- Analyze Data
- Apply new knowledge
- Creative Writing
- Design solution
- Essay Writing
- Function on team
- Lab writing
- Make informed judgement
- Oral presentation by group
- Research paper
- Resume
- Solve problem
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
Resource Library
http://www.learningoutcomeassessment.org/publications.html
American Association of Colleges and Universities
VALUE Rubrics
https://www.aacu.org/value-rubrics
General Education
General Education is the foundation for all degree and certificate programs. It provides students with knowledge, skills, attributes, and values needed to learn actively, communicate clearly, think critically, creatively, and reflectively, and to interact effectively in diverse environments. General Education helps students become independent, critical thinkers, competent in their chosen professions by possessing a solid foundation in math, English, laboratory, social and behavioral sciences, communication, and information technology.
Program Revisions
NTU's GenEd program has been revised and aligned to the Common Course Numbering System of the New Mexico Higher Education Department.
General Education Program Assessment Plan 2020-2021
Assessment of the GenEd program takes place one goal/semester at a time. Data summaries of direct and indirect measures are compiled on an annual basis by the University's Offices of Assessment and Institutional Research. An annual summary that includes recommendations for program improvement is prepared by the Student Learning Committee and included in the University's Annual Student Learning Report. Curriculum revisions as needed are designed by the Student Learning Committee and reviewed and approved by the Faculty Congress.
New Mexico Higher Education Department Links
- New Mexico General Education Curriculum
- New Mexico Common Course Numbering System
- New Mexico Common Course Numbering System Catalog, v. 16
Arizona
Co-curricular Programming and Assessment 2021
The goal of Co-Curricular Student Learning and Development at NTU is to provide value to Diné communities through research, community engagement, and service learning projects, and projects that foster cultural preservation, environmental sustainability, and economic development.
Co-Curricular activities are organized by faculty members as course assignments for course credit, and by faculty sponsors in student organizations. Projects require at least ten hours of out-of-class participation and are assessed through a reflective essay or survey.
Students who complete an end-of-project survey do so using an online instrument. Data are organized by the Student Learning Coordinator. Copies of students’ reflective essays are submitted to the Student Learning Coordinator for program improvement analysis. The CCP is overseen and improved annually by NTU’s Student Learning Committee.
Assessment Reports
- Annual Student Learning Report 2020
- Annual Student Learning Report 2019
- Annual Assessment Report: Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
- Annual Assessment Report: Fall 2016 – Spring 2017
- Annual Assessment Report: Fall 2015 – Spring 2016
- Annual Assessment Report: Fall 2014 – Spring 2015
Assessment Guides
Student Learning Committee
The Student Learning Committee consists of members of the Faculty Congress who represent each academic department and degree-granting campus location. Members are nominated by academic department chairpersons. The Student Learning Committee oversees policies, requirements, tools, reports, and professional development for program assessment, general education, and co-curricular programming.
Adult Education
- Terry Yazzie — Chinle
General Education
- Andrew Escudero — Chinle
- Bruce Lewis — Chinle
- Peter Moore — Crownpoint
Applied Tech
- Jones Lee — Crownpoint
- Lorencita Billiman — Bond Wilson
Arts & Humanities
- Chelsea Bunn — Crownpoint
- Dianna Mullet — Crownpoint
- Lola Natay — Chinle
Business
- Phil Quink — Crownpoint
Diné & Zuni Studies
- Sharon Nelson — Crownpoint
- Belinda Tsabetsaye — A:shiwi
Engineering, Math, & Technology
- Gholam Ehteshami — Crownpoint
- Duwayne Thomas — Chinle
Science
- Ramesh Dvkota — Chinle
- Rachel Pacheco — Crownpoint
Academic Administration
- Vangee Nez — Bond Wilson
- Reynelle Lowsayatee — A:shiwi
- Jennifer Wheeler — Crownpoint
Serving ex officio
- Casmir Agbaraji, Dean of Instruction
- Sheena Begay, Institutional Research
- Dody Begay, Information Technology
Committee chair
- Daniel McLaughlin, Student Learning Coordinator
Minutes
Student Learning Committee
2020 - 2021
2019 - 2020
Assessment Committee Meeting
2018 – 2019
- May 10, 2019
- February 15, 2019
- November 30, 2018
- November 9, 2018
- October 19, 2018
- September 7, 2018
- August 24, 2018
- August 8, 2018
2017 – 2018
- June 28, 2018
- May 16, 2018
- April 24, 2018
- April 17, 2018
- March 20, 2018
- March 6, 2018
- February 20, 2018
- February 6, 2018
Songs for Assessment
- You can't always get what you want (Rolling Stones)
- Too many rules and regulations (Sugar Ray and the Bluetones)
- You can make it if you try (Sly and the Family Stone)
- Getting better all the time (The Beatles)