Student learning outcomes (SLO) are the key component of an assessment plan. These are concise statements that indicate the knowledge, skills, and abilities that students in a program are expected to ...
Often, instructors want students to do more than know content that is increasingly complex. Other goals may refer to students’ interaction within the larger program or within the world. Fink (2013) ...
There’s a classroom epidemic spreading across southern Minnesota. From Waseca to Cleveland, from St. Peter to Le Center, a new and invasive strand of brain-based learning is arriving in schools.
How advocates choose to measure social and emotional learning (SEL) will play a critical role in shaping the effort’s goals and success. The lack of clarity and consensus around SEL creates a specific ...
Measuring skills, not test scores, is key. By Kim Bosch Most parents never expected they’d be in grade school again, and yet, here we are: the alphabet, the multiplication tables, the order of colors ...
Learning outcomes explain what students should be able to achieve by the end of a course. This may be changes in their knowledge, skills, attitude or behaviors. Learning outcomes are the first element ...