1. Assessment & Student Learning Outcomes
Ben Peterson, Ph.D.
Teaching Innovations Office, UTLC

2. Today’s Plan Your experience with SLOs Form and Function Assessment
Design Tools: Visualizing SLOs

3. Participants will be able to…
Reflect on existing practices of writing learning outcomes
Identify the key components of the most beneficial learning outcomes
Experiment with additional ways of using learning outcomes in a course
Recognize strategies for making the process of constructing SLOs more useful

4. How do you construct and use learning outcomes now?

5. How do you construct and use learning outcomes now?
As a begrudged requirement?
As a syllabus guide?
As a course design tool?
As a teaching tool?
All of the above?

6. Form and Function

7. Astin’s I-E-O Model and Assessment
Environments
Inputs
Outcomes

8. Learning Outcomes
Express what the student will be able to know or do following a particular experience in an environment
Focus on recognizing the culmination of efforts
Are measurable (i.e., identifiable or observable)
Are detailed and specific
Identify specific actions (using precise action verbs)

11. Use in Learning Environments
Initial Communication
Ongoing Communication
Formative Assessment
Agile Assignments
Summative Assessment
Course Revision

12. Writing with Function in Mind
Gen Ed Requirements
Prerequisite Courses
Assignments
Diverse Learning Experiences

13. Is there a learning experience for which you would like to be able to give the learner a more directed expectation?

14. Design and Assessment

15. Learning Outcomes and Design

16. The Value of Precision

17. Specific and Measurable
Students will…
will appreciate the benefits of exercise science.
will understand the scientific method.
will become familiar with correct grammar and literary devices.
will develop problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
Writing and Assessing Student Learning Outcomes, IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning

18. Specific and Measurable
Students will…
will appreciate exercise as a stress reduction tool.
will apply the scientific method in problem solving.
will demonstrate the use of correct grammar and various literary devices.
will demonstrate critical thinking skills, such as problem solving as it relates to social issues.

19. Specific and Measurable
Students will…
will explain how the science of exercise affects stress.
will design a grounded research study using the scientific method.
will demonstrate the use of correct grammar and various literary devices in creating an essay.
will analyze and respond to arguments about racial discrimination.

20. Specific and Measurable
Students will…
will explain how the science of exercise affects stress.
will design a grounded research study using the scientific method.
will demonstrate the use of correct grammar and various literary devices in creating an essay.
will analyze and respond to arguments about racial discrimination.

21. Visualizing Student Learning Outcomes

25. How do you construct and use learning outcomes now?

26. How might you construct and use learning outcomes now?

27. Thanks!
Ben Peterson