It’s All Relative (Or Is It?): A Workshop On Outcomes, Assignments & Assessing Student Learning
Channel: CTRLAmerican
Date: 2023-05-22

On paper, course mapping makes sense: assignments align neatly to outcomes, and provided students complete their work, there will have been opportunities to practice and achieve the learning we desire. But, if we’re honest, many of us would probably admit to a fuzzier sense of student progress in our courses and so assessment seems hard to get our arms around. Content acquisition is one thing, but inquiry-based habits of metacognition seem harder to confirm. In this session, we’ll model one professor’s attempts to take on this challenge before turning the tables and getting participants involved in strategizing how they can methodically investigate what students have learned.