The Ultimate Guide to Learning Outcomes
Designing a course can seem overwhelming. Even more so, designing a course that effectively involves and stimulates students can seem downright impossible. As an award-wining educator (student voted), I’ve constructed this guide to walk you through the process of creating interactive courses for any subject matter and via any instructional method (i.e., face-to-face, online, etc.).
Most stories are written backwards. The ending comes first, and then you write the backstory leading up to it. However, the audience reads the flipped version, from beginning to end. This backwards process is known as Constructive Alignment. If you didn’t do this, you aren’t telling a story, you’re rambling and
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It tells them whether they should be able to demonstrate the outcome at the end of a specific lesson, a full course, or an entire program of study. Other examples of possible stems could be:
• By the end of this course, students will be able to…
• By the end of this module, students should be able to…
• By the end of this class, successful students will be able to…
• In order to pass this course, students must demonstrate the ability to…
After completing the Stem portion of your learning outcome, the Action Word component utilizes Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. According to Bloom’s Taxonomy, learning takes place across three domains. The first of these is the cognitive domain of learning, and it relates to intellectual and content knowledge. The second domain of learning is psychomotor, which refers to physical movements and their co-ordination with sensation and perception. Third, learning also takes place in the affective domain, which encompasses our attitudes and values.
Within each of these three domains are varying levels of low order and high order skills. In the tables below, the top row is the lowest order skill (e.g., remembering) and each skill gets progressively higher as you move down the chart. The aim should be to incorporate as many high level action words as possible
During an assessment I will use The Three Domains of Learning (Bloom et. al. 1956) from the Learning Guide, mainly from the ‘Knowledge Domain’. Students should be able to recall key information during discussions, and illustrate key aspects during writing assignments, this entails comprehension and is indicative of learning.
They way in which we learn is partly dependent on the type of learning that is involved. There are three types of domains of learning. They are Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor. For detailed explanation please refer to question 1.1
Cultural influences that are learned from birth to about age 5. These can be morals, value of education, work ethic, etc.
When looking back on high school, I realize that I typically learned more from teachers who made their classes interesting. By doing so, these educators utilized student interest as method of building a desire to learn. They camouflaged learning in the colors of discussion, making it seem as though we simply were carrying on a normal discourse. But each class inevitably resulted in the acquisition of a better understanding of the subject material. As a student, I found myself wanting to go to these classes. The teachers who conducted these courses made education seem enjoyable and thus created in students a desire to engage in further learning. As a future educator, I would like my class to operate in a similar manner. I want my class to be one that students look forward to attending. Mine will be an intellectually open classroom environment—one in which
This course offers numerous opportunities to improve our writing. In this class, I not only enhanced the skills I already had, but also learned new writing concepts. Before I took this class, I knew that my writing is poor, and I have always wanted to improve it; however, I did not know how and what aspects of writing to improve. So, I came into this class with the ambition to improve my writing, and I have accomplished my goal although there is still room for improvement. At this point of this course, I have learned the elements that successful writing is composed of, and I am now able to categorize the various techniques that can work together to define strong
Task 1 links to learning outcome 1, assessment criteria 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. LO 2 ac 2.1 LO 3 ac 3.5
End stage: A post-test evaluation will be conducted at the end of a program to measure participants’ comprehensive learning.
Learning Outcome-outline what a pupil will be able to do, know and understand having completed the topic. Lists the resources which will be needed in the teaching and learning of a particular topic. Introducing the topic (in some plans only) outlines an approach to introducing
According to Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Domains, learning is divided into three main domains: cognitive is the thinking domain, affective is the emotion and feeling domain, and psychomotor is the physical and kinesthetic domain. Included in each domain is a taxonomy or classification. The taxonomies proceed from the simplest to most complex levels of the domain.
As educators, it is important to address individual differences in students’ recognition, strategic, or affective networks, thus providing the best possible support by individualizing pathways to learning through Universal Design for Learning (UDL). A study on alternative education for children suggests oversimplifying learner differences by categorizing students into two groups, regular and special, fails to accurately represent the full diversity of learners in the classroom. ( Meo, 2010, p. 21) Therefore, UDL is a framework for designing curriculum which provides all students equal opportunities to learn, with no discrimination to individual needs. In order for students to have equal opportunity in their learning and achievement,
The three domains of learning are domains in which learning occurs; these three domains are: cognitive, affective and psychomotor (Potter & Perry, 2014). To guide our
Now that I have completed the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth course Crafting the Essay, I feel I have tremendously grown as a writer. Even after submitting the first assignment, I looked back at a position paper I wrote for school that I received an A+ on, yet I saw several flaws I wished I had changed.
It is important to continuously evaluate the effectiveness of any learning or training program to ensure that the goals or objectives can successfully be met. Evaluation of the merits of a learning or training program are embedded into all of the phases of ADDIE. Evaluation of a course can happen in several different ways- reflective analysis, garnering learner feedback, using formative and summative assessment materials to judge effectiveness of learners are having with the materials and content. This paper will discuss feedback I’ve received regarding the creation of my online course: Maximizing Student Engagement.
Bloom and his committee created these learning domains strictly for academic context. The design was used to develop a system of learning behaviors to assist in designing educational learning.
As university professors are being presented with new types of students, there is a call to integrate advanced technology into their course design, and ultimately, educators must lead the way and use the technology in a fashion that positively aids their students: “technology should be used with the needs of the learners in mind and with the goal of improving student learning as the focus” (Russo et al. 2014). If this idea is implemented and acknowledged correctly, then many advantages can arise that enhance student learning in university classrooms. The first benefit of instructors introducing advanced technology into their teaching is that technology connects with students, which ultimately arouses their interest because technology as a whole is a relevant and important part of student’s lives. When students are interested and engaged in the class material they become motivated to pay attention and focus on what they are being taught, which leads to an improved retention rate of information. This relates to the DVD that West, Pudsey and Dunk-West created for teacher to give to their students to work within their learning, and they found that it “easily assimilates into their everyday life world” (2010). Another advantage is that the use of technology supports collaboration skills within students. Erin Murphy (2010) conducted an experiment centering around educators use of Audience Response Systems, commonly