Academic Assessment

Overview

All academic units at the University of New Mexico must assess their degree-granting programs.

Academic units collect and share evidence of how classroom assessment at the course level ‘rolls up’ to provide evidence of teaching and learning for assessment at the program level. The OAAPR synthesizes this data into department-level and institution-wide reports to create an understanding of UNM as a whole. 

The UNM Academic Unit Assessment Manual defines the processes here in more detail.

Timeline

Academic units observe an annual assessment cycle based on academic years, collecting data throughout the Spring and Fall semesters and submitting a final report for that academic year by January 31 of the next year.

Note: January 31 is the deadline for all college/school/branch assessment coordinators to submit their program plans and reports to the Office of Assessment & Academic Program Review (OAAPR). Internal deadlines will be much earlier (between October and December). Please submit assessment documents according to your internal procedures and timelines.  

Templates

Please use the following documents for academic unit assessment unless an alternative version is provided for a particular college, school, or branch.

• UNM Academic Assessment Plan and Report Template (PDF or Word) 
  • Assessment Plan Tutorial (YouTube video)
  • Assessment Report Tutorial (YouTube video)
    
• College/School/Branch Maturity Rubric and Narrative Template
  • to be completed by the college/school/branch-level Assessment Coordinator or CARC Chair and submitted to the OAAPR
• Academic Unit Maturity Rubric and Narrative Template
  • to be completed by individual programs/units and shared with their CARC Chair/Assessment Coordinator--not collected by the OAAPR

Additional documents

• UNM Student Learning Goals
• UNM-Valencia Branch Annual Academic Program Assessment Report Review Rubric

Submissions

The UNM Digital Repository is the central location for all assessment documents.

If you are the person in your unit responsible for uploading these documents, please see this detailed guide on uploading to the repository. Otherwise, please adhere to your internal submission requirements. If you are a representative from an academic unit/program within a college/school/branch, please submit your assessment documents to your Assessment Coordinator or CARC Chair, not the repository.  

If you are already familiar with the uploading process, you can go directly to the repository submission form.

Reports

Academic Years: 2012-2013 | 2013-2014 | 2014-2015 | 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | 2021-2022 | 2022-2023 | 2023-2024

This report is based on individual program assessment plans and reports as well as the Academic Program Assessment Maturity Rubric which is administered annually to evaluate the assessment maturity of each academic program and determine the overall state of assessment of each college, school, and branch.

In 2023, the OAAPR began providing individualized academic assessment reports by college, school, and branch to deans, associate deans, and assessment coordinators. Contact your assessment leadership to see your area’s results.