Academic Assessment
Assessment Philosophy
Assessment is an ongoing process aimed at understanding and improving student learning. It involves the following:
- Making our expectations clear and public
- Setting appropriate criteria and high standards for learning quality
- Systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well performance matches those expectations and standards
- Using the resulting information to document, explain, and improve performance
- Creating a shared academic culture dedicated to assuring and improving the quality of higher education
Assessment Mission
To improve student learning at CNCC through continuous, comprehensive, meaningful assessment of student academic achievement.
Assessment Goals
- Assess student academic achievement at the classroom, program, and institutional level
to improve learning
- Continue to develop and improve measurable competencies for all courses, programs, and degrees
- Continue the collection and evaluation of assessment data. (Refer to the Annual Cycle of Assessment)
- Sustain and promote a manageable assessment plan based on institutional values
- Continue to provide assessment training opportunities for faculty, staff, and administration
- Foster an institution-wide culture of assessment
- Develop and maintain a centralized data collection, analysis, and reporting process
- Support assessment efforts through institutional research office
- Create and maintain assessment web link with participation from each department/program
- Publish assessment results internally and for the local community
- Ensure CNCC assessment results impact institutional planning and budgeting
Institutional Assessment Goals
- To equip students with skills necessary for creative problem solving, critical thinking, and analysis of values
- To equip students with the communication skills (both written and symbolic) necessary for effective listening, speaking, reading and writing
- Equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to function in a diverse society and workplace as appropriate to the specific discipline
- Equip students with the technical skills necessary to succeed in today and tomorrow's workforce as appropriate to the specific discipline