Mountain View’s plan assesses student achievement of Perspectives, Competencies, and Exemplary Educational Objectives. The Mountain View plan (pdf 51kb) provides two cycles of assessment for the Intellectual Competencies.  Computer literacy and critical thinking will be assessed during the 2004-2005 and the 2007-2008 cycles.  Listening and speaking will be assessed in the 2005-2006 and 2008-2009 cycles.  The remaining ICs, reading and writing, will be assessed in 2006-2007 and 2009-2010.  In the fall of 2004, twenty Mountain View courses will be assessed, twelve of which address both critical thinking and computer literacy. One course that is not designated as a computer literacy course, Humanities 1301, is also assessing this competency.

Individual component areas for all disciplines have committed to assessment plans which address the Exemplary Educational Objectives.  Some areas have made specific time commitments for assessment of Exemplary Educational Objectives, and others are completing their deliberations and commitment to the timeline. Perspectives have also been identified for assessment during the 2004-2009 cycle.

The role of the Mountain View College Core Curriculum Evaluation Committee will be to identify the underlying skills within the academic disciplines for each Intellectual Competency in order to define what a “proficient” Mountain View College student should know and be able to do upon completion of the Core Curriculum. The committee has identified skills and defined proficiency for the Intellectual Competencies assessed in 2004-2005 (computer literacy and critical thinking) and will address other competencies in subsequent years.