A key to designing informal experiences to support learning is to clearly articulate the goals for a particular experience. That is, what should participants learn through their experience? In this ...

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 ...

Outcomes assessment is a systematic approach for documenting what students get out of our programs, services, courses and events. The question an outcomes-based assessment attempts to answer is "What ...

Assessment of student learning outcomes in Miami University academic degree programs and majors focuses on full-cycle assessment. Rather than viewing assessment as a one-time project to be completed, ...

To have a quality graduate education, individual courses must have learning outcomes that are appropriate for graduate students. Learning outcomes should emphasize the application, analysis, synthesis ...

At Northwestern University, we believe that student learning happens throughout and across the college experience. The following four broad, division-wide student learning domains and related student ...

Learning outcomes are statements about what students can expect to know or be able to do. Communicating learning outcomes with students creates a shared understanding about the purpose and ...

Outcomes can be at the university, program or course level. Learning outcomes may be defined as the change in a student’s knowledge or skills as a result of the student’s experience(s). The focus of ...

The University Assessment Steering Committee (UASC), in conjunction with the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, requests information regarding student learning outcomes assessment as a part of the ...