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Academic Foundations Assessment Plan
 

New Jersey City University

William J. Maxwell College of Arts and Sciences

Academic Foundations Program

Outcome Assessment Goals and Objectives

English: College Writing

Successful students will achieve competency in the writing of short (300 word) analytic essays as demonstrated by:

o Analysis of issues

o Coherent structure

o Adherence to the conventions of standard written English (including grammar, mechanics, and usage).

Mathematics: Basic Mathematics and Algebra for College

Successful students will achieve competency in the area of general math as demonstrated by:

o Computational skills involving operations and applications of whole numbers

o Computational skills involving integers, fractions, and modeling

real-life problems in algebraic form.

o Computational skills involving the solving of linear equations, signed numbers, geometry, and statistics.

Successful students will achieve competency in the area of algebra as demonstrated by:

o Algebraic skills in simplifying and evaluating algebraic expressions, solving and graphing linear equations and inequalities

o Algebraic skills in the properties of and operations on polynomials, roots and graphs

o Algebraic skills in the graphs of quadratic functions and the formulating of word problems in algebraic forms and simplifying them.

Literacy Education: Reading for College

Successful students will achieve competency in the area of reading as demonstrated by:

o Analysis of reading selections and written responses to them

o Reflective statements that analyze demands of reading selections

o Insight into their own literacy processing skills and to apply meta cognitive (self-monitoring) strategies to reading selections to facilitate comprehension

o Acquisition and use of language processing strategies (e.g., identify new vocabulary, identify author’s point of view, identify signal words, identifying classification of information)

o Identification and application of meaning-centered strategies which are applicable to cross-curricular content

o Reading for information and pleasure

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