Course info

Course name, Writing Functional Student Learning Outcomes

Institutional Effectiveness Type of course Writing functional learning outcomes


About the course

Upcoming Classes

No classes scheduled

Description

The purpose of this workshop is to assist faculty in academic programs in writing functional student learning goals and outcomes. After briefly discussing what makes a “good” learning outcome, there will be time to work on improving a program’s already published student learning outcomes.

Objectives

  • Explain the importance of having functional student learning outcomes for a program or course
  • Distinguish between a weak and a strong student learning outcome
  • Apply Bloom’s taxonomy in writing effective student learning outcomes
  • Identify words or phrases to avoid in writing effective student learning outcomes
  • Revise one of your program’s published student learning outcomes to make it functional

Prerequisites

  • None

Administrators

  • Pete Wachs

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