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Recent Posts
- Moving Out and On: Illinois Students at Out-of-State Colleges April 20, 2018
- An Insider’s Take on Assessment Reaction January 16, 2018
- Incorporating Design Principles in Writing Student Learning Outcomes December 11, 2017
- Learning Goals, Objectives, & Outcomes: They’re All the Same December 8, 2017
- Wayfinding & Curriculum Mapping in Higher Education December 6, 2017
- Assessment and Stories We Tell Students April 24, 2017
- Bunking & Debunking Altucher’s 15 Essential Skills They Don’t Teach in College April 11, 2017
- Illinois High School Graduates and Out-of-State Colleges July 21, 2016
- End Planning and Start Storytelling with Learning Outcomes May 5, 2016
- Best Practice and Kind-of-Best-Practice Guidelines for Writing Learning Outcomes May 5, 2016
- Do We Really Need Student Learning Outcomes? March 2, 2016
- Assessment Planning and Decision-making: The Problems with Assessment Frameworks August 31, 2015
- Junk Assessment and Junk Miles: Quit Worrying About Assessment August 27, 2015
- Assessment and Evaluation Distinctions August 26, 2015
- Shadow & Genuine Assessment October 14, 2014
- Getting Assessment Results Off the Shelf: The Where and the When of Assessment October 14, 2014
- Serendipitous Assessment September 17, 2014
- Differentiating Between Levels of Assessment: Program Goals and Learning Outcomes September 17, 2014
- Where Assessment Works Best September 17, 2014
- Making Assessment Useful: Why People Are Really Bad At Using Results for Decision-Making September 17, 2014
- Getting Organized with Assessment – A Framework September 17, 2014
- Survey Guidelines, Part 3: The Social Context of Surveys September 17, 2014
- Survey Guidelines, Part 2: Survey Questions September 17, 2014
- Survey Guidelines, Part 1: Survey Design September 17, 2014
Tag Archives: Learning Outcomes
Incorporating Design Principles in Writing Student Learning Outcomes
Modern Design Principles Smartphones, tablets, and e-readers have revolutionized how we consume and create information. It’s a based simple formula: simplicity + user customization = engagement Take my e-reader, pictured below. It comes in only black or white. To get … Continue reading
Learning Goals, Objectives, & Outcomes: They’re All the Same
Assessment has always struggled with language and definitions. One area of confusion is the distinctions between different statements of intentionality. These usually include goals, objectives, outcomes, targets, performance indicators, and so forth. When incorporated into one plan, the result can sometimes … Continue reading
Wayfinding & Curriculum Mapping in Higher Education
A curriculum map is a visual representation of how a program’s activities or courses lead to a coherent learning experience for students. (Principles of curriculum mapping can also be applied to the co-curriculum). Wayfinding: Why Curriculum Mapping is Important An … Continue reading
End Planning and Start Storytelling with Learning Outcomes
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age (Einstein). Imagine the ideal student 10 years after your class. What do you want them to know? What are your hopes for them? What do … Continue reading
Best Practice and Kind-of-Best-Practice Guidelines for Writing Learning Outcomes
References at the end of this blog. Learning outcomes should focus on what students learn, not what we teach. Students will be introduced to the topics of abnormal mental behaviors in their patients. The problem with this outcome is that it … Continue reading
Do We Really Need Student Learning Outcomes?
I made it to the end of my junior year of college without picking a major. It never really occurred to me to pick one. But I did know what I liked to do – drawing, writing, reading, baseball statistics, … Continue reading
Assessment, Evaluation, & Surveys in Higher Education (Class Blog) 