Align Course Learning Outcomes with course content

What is course alignment?

Alignment is the connection between course learning outcomes, learning activities and assessment. An aligned course means that your course learning outcomes match with the course activities and assessments so students learn what you intend and you accurately assess what students are learning.

• Course learning outcomes are the expectations for student performance: they specify what you want student to be able to do when they finish your course.
• Activities are the experiences that students engage in that prepare them to achieve the intended learning objective.
• Assessment is a system for collecting evidence about student learning that we can use to improve and make judgments about learning.

Using a Learning Taxonomy to Align your course

How do you align a course? One way is to use a learning taxonomy. Its purpose is to help you classify your course learning objectives and select learning activities and assessments that are aligned toward those learning objectives. There are many learning taxonomies, but the one we present here is Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy.

                               Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

(adopted parts of it from: https://tinyurl.com/y4mrbhxk)