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.

Student learning outcomes (SLOs) in our academic and co-curricular programs reflect the specific types of learning (knowledge, skills, dispositions) we expect as a result of students’ educational ...

Requirement: One Course -- clear expression of ideas in writing; includes grammar, organization, and structure. Varying levels and types of writing skills are required for different jobs. The ability ...

Have you ever been excited to learn about a particular topic, only to attend the session and find yourself disappointed? Perhaps the material was overwhelming or lacked alignment with the outlined ...

Direct Measures of student learning consider actual student work or behavior as evidence of student learning outcomes. Direct measures are most often drawn from student work embedded in a course (such ...

In 2024, CU Boulder identified the need for an intensive cross-campus focus on creating and assessing program learning outcomes to support student success, guide academic planning and meet the ...

One of the most robust backward design models developed for higher education is L. Dee Fink’s integrated course design. Fink outlines a streamlined process for designing academic courses, divided into ...