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.
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
- Student learning report
- Program course sequencing
- Program course planner
- Syllabus template (approved May 2022)
- 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
Other Assessment Measures
- Professionalism Observation Assessment
- Teacher Candidate Self-Assessment (see p. 12 of apprenticeship packet)
General Education Assessment
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.
HLC GenEd Assessment Workshop 2021
NTU participated in a workshop sponsored by the Higher Learning Commission focused on improving GenEd assessment. The workshop took place in September and early October, 2021. Team members included Colleen Bowman, Kelly Chiquito, Bruce Lewis, Peter Moore, and Lola Natay. Workshop resources are posted below:
- Assessing Student Learning in General Education, Module 2. Susan Hatfield
- Assessing Student Learning in General Education, Module 3. Susan Hatfield
- Assessing Student Learning in General Education, Module 4. Susan Hatfield
New Mexico Higher Education Department Links
Arizona
Co-curricular Assessment
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 five 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 2021
- 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 the University's academic departments and campus locations. Members are self-nominated and affirmed by Faculty Congress leadership and academic administration.
SLC members in 2021-2022 include:
- Reza Ehteshtami
- Virgil House
- Joseph Lamperez
- Jones Lee
- Bruce Lewis
- Peter Moore
- Lola Natay
- Sharon Nelson
- Rachel Pacheco
- Christine Reidhead
- Abhishek RoyChowdhury
- Brian Tatsukawa
- Cheryl Tom
- Terry Yazzie
Minutes
Student Learning Committee
2021 - 2022
- May 20 2022
- May 6 2022
- Apr 8 2022
- Mar 4 2022
- Feb 11 2022
- Jan 14 2022
- Dec 3 2021
- Nov 12 2021
- Oct 8 2021
- Sep 10 2021
- Aug 16 2021
2020 - 2021
2019 - 2020
Assessment Committee
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