After the Program Outcomes have been established, the next step and in many ways, the first step in the actual assessment cycle is to identify the learning outcomes that should occur for each course.

Colleges are feeling heat to prove that their students are learning. As a result, a growing number of colleges are measuring intended “learning outcomes” as well as issuing grades. But fewer are using ...

Robert Shireman is right. The former official at the U.S. Department of Education correctly wrote recently that there is little evidence that using accreditation to compel institutions to publicly ...

In order for faculty and departments to succeed in educating students, they must establish what they hope students will learn. Broadly speaking, learning outcomes are the intended or expected ...

An effective learning program can drive business results and power your transformation efforts. But only 26% of information workers report that current training offerings help them perform better.

This website provides a collection of sample learning objectives across various disciplines, serving as a practical resource for educators seeking inspiration and guidance in creating clear and ...

Last fall, the faculty voted to approve a common curriculum that defines the academic experience and intended learning outcomes that every undergraduate student should have upon graduation, regardless ...

The student credit hour is an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutionally established equivalency that ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. In the past 20 years, citizen science has blossomed as a way to engage a broad range ...

In today’s digital classrooms, students are inundated with an overwhelming amount of content — from endless YouTube tutorials and ed-tech courses to bite-sized lessons on social media. The challenge ...