WNMU UNIVERSITY WIDE ASSESSMENT RESULTS 2006

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WNMUUNIVERSITY WIDE ASSESSMENT RESULTS2006

• COLLEGIATE ASSESSMENT OF ACADEMIC PROFICIENCY
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• NATIONAL SURVEY OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

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ASSISTED WITH DATA COLLECTION
William Norris Linda Baldwin Mary Baumhover Garth
Gerstein Gary Cook Andy Hernandez
Current Assessment Committee Members William
Norris, Chair Eric Siegel, Assessment
Coordinator William Ritke-Jones John
Norris Virginia Huegel Gloria Maya Beth
Walker Gerald Burgess Manny Bustamante Claudia
Leonard Jolane Culhane Marcia Bourdette, ex
officio
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Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency

• Measures skill in traditional intelligence areas
  of Writing, Reading, Mathematics, and Critical
  Thinking
• Can be used as an Achievement Test
• Test format is multiple choice yet cognitively
  difficult in part due to time limit imposition

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Tested Writing and Reading Students visibly upset
about participating were excused Students whose
testing behavior indicated non-responsiveness
were excused
Silver City Day 1 9 Silver City Day 2
13 Silver City Day 3 23 Deming
16 Watts Hall 14
Total 75
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WNMU OVERALL AVERAGE PERCENTILE (NATIONAL NORM)
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CONCLUSIONS

• CRITICAL THINKING IS OUR STUDENT BODYS STRONGEST
  SKILL
• MATHEMATICS IS OUR STUDENT BODYS WEAKEST SKILL
• THERE IS SOME INDICATION THAT WRITING SKILL IS
  RISING WITHIN OUR STUDENT BODY AT THE HIGHER
  LEVELS OF PROFICIENCY
• REASONABLE GOALS COULD BE TO INCREASE THE
  PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS OVER THE 10TH PERCENTILE
  IN WRITING AND MATHEMATICS, TO INCREASE THE
  PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS OVER THE 25TH PERCENTILE
  IN READING, AND TO INCREASE THE PERCENTAGE OF
  STUDENTS OVER THE 50TH PERCENTILE IN CRITICAL
  THINKING

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National Survey of Student Engagement

• Survey style questionnaire with category
  judgments of frequency or quality
• 178 Degree-seeking respondents 107 freshmen, 71
  seniors
• Offered through internet with Mustang Express
  invitation
• 88 of the respondents reported that they were FT
  
• Ethnicity and Gender distributions mimicked UG
  pop.

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Peer Comparison Groups
Carnegie
Geographic

• Maryville Univ. St. Louis
• Molloy College
• Niagra University
• Roberts Wesleyan College
• Ursuline College
• Viterbo University

• Arizona State Univ.
• Eastern NM Univ.
• NM Inst. Of Mining and Tech.
• University of Arizona
• Univ. of Texas, Perm. Basin

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CONCLUSIONS

• In general, we are trending higher in student
  ratings of their experiences at WNMU
• Our faculty/student interaction scores are
  relatively high and are stable
• We do not offer as many interesting campus events
  as our peers
• Relative to our peers, our students are more
  likely to work with other students during class
  and less likely to work with other students
  outside of class
• Our students tend to use the electronic medium
  less than our peers
• Our students read more books for enjoyment than
  our peers
• Our students participation in physical fitness
  activities is below our peers
• Our only continuous decline is the perception by
  our students of a decrease in the quality of
  relationships with other students
• While in line with our geographic peers, our
  students perceptions of Advising and Overall
  satisfaction is dramatically lower than our
  Carnegie peers.
• Participation in foreign language coursework is
  well below our geographic peers but in line with
  our Carnegie peers.
• We are more likely to offer Independent Study or
  a self-designed major than our peers