MEADE Visual Repository: Course & Program Design
This section focuses on principles of course design that help build clear, coherent, and inclusive learning experiences. The visuals are arranged to begin with course design basics, such as the difference between assignment types and aligning assessment with outcomes. Additionally, more advanced academic program assessment concepts such as creating a curriculum map help build a cohesive assessment culture at the course, program and institutional levels.
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This infographic guides you through four steps for writing measurable learning outcomes, identifying what students should know, do, or value; specifying criteria for acceptable performance; choosing Bloom’s verbs to describe the learning; and measuring outcomes with aligned assessments.
This infographic explains the step to align assessments with learning outcomes.
This infographic shows you constructive alignment as a continuous cycle connecting learning outcomes, learning activities, and learning assessments.
This infographic shows you how to “close the loop” by using assessment results for continuous improvement. It presents a cycle of planning outcomes and curriculum, assessing and collecting data, analyzing results, revising teaching and curriculum, and then reassessing.
This infographic shows you how individual course outcomes build toward program outcomes and, ultimately, institutional goals.
The infographic explains the steps to create a curriclum map a program of study.
