Effective Program Learning Outcomes
The "Meaningful" criteria for effective Program Learning outcomes evaluates whether the outcome reflects the values and mission of THIS.
What is the Program?
The taxonomy for learning whose cognitive domain includes the levels of Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create.
What's is Bloom's?
The process for course design that starts with course learning outcomes rather than texts or assignments.
What is Backward Design?
The type of measure for Program Assessment represented by student submissions such as final papers, comprehensive exams, portfolio evaluations.
What is a Direct Measure?
Program Learning Outcomes express what should be demonstrated by WHOM?
What are Graduates (of the program)?
The criteria for effective Course Learning outcomes that evaluates whether students will be able to develop the necessary skills, knowledge, and/or values in the time allotted with the resources provided.
What is Achievable?
The best practice for course design is to focus on THESE after defining the Course Learning Outcomes.
What are assessments?
This tool is used by students and advisors to plot the sequence of courses from the first year through graduation.
What is a Degree Plan?
Measurable Program Learning Outcomes use an action ONE OF THESE to describe the level of proficiency expected to be demonstrated by students.
What is a Verb?
The criteria for effective Course Learning outcomes that evaluates whether the learning is situated for this particular group of students with a fitting level of challenge and complexity.
What is Appropriate?
This type of assessment is typically low-stakes and gives the instructor and students information about progress toward Course Learning Outcomes.
What is Formative Assessment?
The type of measure for Program Assessment represented by student surveys, focus group discussions, job placement data, employer surveys, and graduate school acceptance rates.
What is an Indirect Measure?
A Comprehensive Program Learning Outcome will thoroughly describe student learning with specific knowledge, disposition, and or THESE, which might include oral communication or critical thinking.
What are Skills?
The criteria for effective Course Learning outcomes that evaluates whether competency is clearly articulated, can be demonstrated by students, and can be observed.
What is Measurable?
The term that describes when a tight thread runs from Program Learning Outcomes to Course Learning Outcomes to Assignments and Activities within the course.
What is Alignment?
THESE are used during Program Assessment to collect quantitative evidence of learning.
What are Rubrics?
The generally recommended target number of Program Outcomes.
What is five?
This taxonomy of learning is dynamic and includes 6 dimensions: Foundational Knowledge, Application, Integration, Human Dimension, Caring, and Learning How to Learn.
The type of course-level assessment that would typically take the form of a final exam or a high-stakes project, used to demonstrate competency with Course Learning Outcomes.
What is a Summative Assessment.
The tool used by programs to show the progression of student learning across courses and identify gaps or needs to tighten the learning experience.
What is a Curriculum Map?