Click here for the handout for Workshop A: Learning Outcomes and Rubrics

Bloom levels are a common vocabulary in learning outcomes.  This taxonomy helps articulate how defining, classifying, critiquing and composing represent a progression. Most campuses want to develop higher levels of thinking and Bloom’s taxonomy breaks down the process into stages.  Students need to learn to identify the parts of a poem before they learn to evaluate how they fit together.

If you do nothing else, taking the time to consider seriously what students will be able to do by the end of every course, will improve learning. Clear learning outcomes contain verbs that correspond to each Bloom level.

GREAT Primer on SLOs from Michael K. Potter and Erika Kustra at the University of Windsor CTL: http://www1.uwindsor.ca/ctl/system/files/PRIMER-on-Learning-Outcomes.pdf

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment: http://www.learningoutcomeassessment.org/

AAC&U Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP): http://www.aacu.org/leap/vision.cfm

American Association of Law Libraries: http://www.aallnet.org/Archived/Education-and-Events/cpe/outcomes.html

Grossmont College: http://www.grossmont.edu/student_learning_outcomes/writing_slos.asp

More on Bloom: http://www.krummefamily.org/guides/bloom.html

EXAMPLES of Program Level SLOs

BYU: https://learningoutcomes.byu.edu/

UConn: http://www.assessment.uconn.edu/docs/HowToWriteObjectivesOutcomes.pdf

Bowling Green Rubrics for University Learning Outcomes: http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/assessment/page31439.html

Book José Bowen to come to your campus and talk about learning and outcomes.