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Charting the Path to Student Success Creating a course map is like planning a road trip—you start with your destination (learning outcomes) and chart the best route to get there (instruction, ...
Communicating learning outcomes with students creates a shared understanding about the purpose and expectations of an assignment, course, or program. In this session, participants will create, ...
Learning outcomes explain what students should be able to achieve by the end of a course. This may be changes in their knowledge, skills, attitude or behaviors. Learning outcomes are the first element ...
Determining how and when students have reached course learning outcomes.
This occurs when critical course components — Learning Objectives, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities and Learner Interaction, Assessment and Measurement, and Course Technology — all work ...
Student learning outcomes (SLOs) allow us to determine whether students are reaching the goals and objectives that we want them to achieve. They are expressed as specific statements describing the ...
A new report, "Degree of Difference: What Do Learning Outcomes Say About Higher Education?" digs into data about "learning outcome statements" at dozens of colleges and universities to see what ...
GE Learning Outcomes for Students Area A: Basic Subjects (9 units) These requirements must be completed before enrollment in upper division GE courses. A grade of "C-" or better is required in all ...
Including measurements of nonacademic behaviors may inflate or deflate a course grade meant to reflect student achievement of learning outcomes. It may result in an atmosphere that students experience ...
Most courses at Purdue have learning outcomes, skills, knowledge or understanding that students are assumed to have upon successful completion of a course. Many of our courses include foundational ...