Developing Learning Outcomes

Developing Student Learning Outcomes

Program level and course level outcomes assessment differ in both time span and specificity. In program level SLOs, the student is expected to learn across courses, and the knowledge translates up to the program level, while for course level outcomes the learning is focused primarily on one class. Additionally, program outcomes are not as granular or detailed as course level outcomes, thus should include more broad learning outcomes.

Setting Learning Outcomes

This website especially introduces what are learning outcomes, why we set learning outcomes, and how can we develop learning outcomes?

Articulate Your Learning Objectives

Before you decide on the content to cover in your course, endow your course with a strong internal structure conducive to student learning. Alignment among three main course components ensures an internally consistent structure. Alignment is when the: 1) OBJECTIVES articulate the knowledge and skills you want students to acquire by the end of the course; 2) ASSESSMENTS allow the instructor to check the degree to which the students are meeting the learning objectives; and  3) INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES are chosen to foster student learning towards meeting the objectives.