Academic Program Assessment Plan Template
Expand the table below as needed for your program. Please enter all goals and outcomes for your program. You should assess all goals and outcomes within
your assessment cycle. Each outcome chosen for assessment during each year should have at least 2 rounds of assessment during that year.
Date Submitted October 31, 2014
Academic Program Assessment Plan Template
Department
Fire Science
Degree/Type
AAS Fire Science
UNM Essential Learning Goals
UNM has established the following essential learning goals for all UNM students: University of New Mexico students will develop the following aptitudes and habits of mind
in the course of their general and major study at UNM
 KNOWLEDGE of human cultures and the natural world, gained through study in the sciences and mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages and
the arts.
 SKILLS, both intellectual and applied, demonstrated in written and oral communication, inquiry and analysis, critical and creative thinking, quantitative literacy,
information literacy, performance, teamwork and problem solving.
 RESPONSIBILITY, both personal and social, that will be manifested in civic knowledge and engagement, multicultural knowledge and competence, ethical reasoning
and action, and foundations and skills for lifelong learning.
Date reviewed by
October 31, 2014
Contact Person (name, title, Joseph Candelaria
CARC
email)
Assessment Cycle (1-year/2year/3-year)
Program Goal #1
2-year
Graduates have a broad knowledge of the role and application of fire science principles and procedures for a successful career in public fire
departments, ambulance services, and fire protection manufacturing and research groups.
Student Learning Outcomes
(In each row enter an SLO
targeted at this Program Goal)
Student Learning Outcome
Year of cycle in
which this
outcome will be
assessed.
Year of Cycle
Define the principles of emergency
F15-Sp16
services.
Demonstrate the fire and
F15-F16
emergency services safety and
UNM Essential
Learning Goal
(Knowledge, Skills,
Responsibility)
Assessment Measure including Direct/ Indirect
(Provide a description of the assessment instrument
used; include the course AND if it was direct or
indirect)
UNM Essential
Assessment Measure
Learning Goal
Knowledge,
Course: FISC 101: Principles of Emergency Services
Responsibility
Course: FISC 105: Principles of Fire and Emergency Services
Skill
Safety & Survival
Performance Benchmark (State
the ‘criteria for success’ or
performance target for meeting
the SLO, i.e., at least 70% of
students will perform with score
of 70 or better)
Performance Benchmark
At least 70% of the students will
perform with a score of 70 or higher.
At least 70% of the students will
perform with a score of 70 or higher.
survival.
Explain the processes of building
construction for fire prevention
Program Goal #2
Student Learning Outcome
Program Goal #3
Student Learning Outcome
2-Year
Knowledge
Course: FISC 21: Building Construction for Fire protection
At least 70% of the students will
perform with a score of 70 or higher.
Enter goal here
Year of Cycle
UNM Essential
Learning Goal
Assessment Measure
Performance Benchmark
UNM Essential
Learning Goal
Assessment Measure
Performance Benchmark
Enter goal here
Year of Cycle
What is your plan for using assessment results?
Please answer the following questions, which are intended to support institutional effectiveness planning and enhance information gathering and sharing.
1.
The program manager will review course performance at the end of each semester and share this with the instructors in the
How will you use each year’s assessment
results to improve student learning or inform program before the next semester. This discussion will determine what emphasis needs to be made in specific courses to
curricular decision making?
improve student outcomes.
2.
How will you communicate assessment results The program manager will review course performance at the end of each semester and share this with the instructors in the
to faculty who could use the information to program before the next semester. This discussion will determine what emphasis needs to be made in specific courses to
make curricular decisions?
improve student outcomes.
3.
How will you determine whether program
changes produced what you intended?
The student outcomes in following semesters will be reviewed to determine the effects of the modifications. National test
outcomes will be monitored for trends and compared with UNM-LA program outcome trends.
4.
What processes do you have in place to
The Dean of Instruction will meet with department chairs and program managers once each semester to review their follow
ensure that annual assessment information is through with faculty.
used to make curricular decisions?