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Assessment Workshop 2
Developing Student Learning Outcomes
Workshop Learning Outcome
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Participants will create learning outcomes that
are appropriate for their discipline and program
Program Purpose Statement
The reason that the program exists.
It should connect to the mission, vision, and goals of LETU
Vision
Claiming every workplace in every nation as our mission field,
LeTourneau University graduates are professionals of ingenuity
and Christ-like character who see life’s work as a holy calling
with eternal impact.
Mission
LeTourneau University is a comprehensive institution of
Christian higher education where educators engage learners to
nurture Christian virtue, to develop competency and ingenuity
in their professional fields, to integrate faith and work, and to
serve the local and global community.
Program Goals vs. Learning Outcomes
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Program Goals are data that focus on program metrics: Enrollment,
Graduation Rates, Faculty Workload, Research agendas, Graduate
Employment, Number of Adjuncts, etc.
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Student Learning Outcomes focus on what students should know, be
able to do, and feel as a result of being a student in your program.
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Both Program Goals and SLOs are important for determining the
Shalom of your programs.
Characteristics of a Well-written
Learning Outcome
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Focus of the End, not the means
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Clarify Fuzzy Terms (Students will learn…, Students will understand…, Students will
demonstrate knowledge, skill, or understanding of…)
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Neither too Broad nor too Specific
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Specificity on who is being assessed
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Use Concrete Action Words
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Appropriate for the academic level
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A well-written learning outcome makes the assessment process easier and more
meaningful.
Cognitive Domain:
Intellectual Outcomes
Creating: Generate new products, ideas
Evaluating: Use of reflection, criticism, and assessment
Analyzing: Dissect Information to explore understanding
& relationships
Applying: Use strategies, concepts, principles in new
situations
Understanding: Grasp Meaning of Information
Remembering: Recall, Restate, or Relay Information
Psychomotor Domain:
Movement, Coordination, and Skills
Origination: Creating new skills/ movements
Adaption: modify movements to address unique
situations
Complex Overt Response: Proficiency in Skill, Automatic
Performance
Mechanism: Responses are habitual and performed with
some confidence and proficiency
Guided Response: Imitation/Trial & Error needed to
learn a complex skill
Set: Readiness to act
Perception: Use sensory cues to guide motor activity
Affective Domain:
Attitudinal Characteristics and Values
Internalizing Values: Value system that controls behavior
Organizing: Prioritize and contrast values, resolving conflicts
Valuing: Worth or value a person attaches to a particular
object, phenomenon or behavior
Responding: active participation on the part of the learner
Receiving: one who is aware of or passively attentive to
certain stimuli or phenomena
Learning Outcomes within a Kingdom of God
Framework
Questions to ask concerning outcomes
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Hope-Filled: Are the learning outcomes helping students and faculty
to focus on their role within the present, but not yet, Kingdom of
God?
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Shalom-Focused: Do the outcomes lead people and communities to
wholeness?
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Love-infused: Are the outcomes written out of love for your students,
fellow faculty members, and God?
Group Exercise
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In groups of two or three, share your current student learning outcomes for
your program.
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Evaluate (rewrite) the outcomes for
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Clarity
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Specificity: Is it too broad or too specific, Who is being assessment
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Use of action words
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Appropriateness for the academic level
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Linked to Program Purpose Statement and LETU Institutional Goals
Discuss the telos of your outcomes. How do they connect to Christ-like
Character, Holy Calling, Christian Virtue, Theology and Vocation, and
service to the local and global community.
For next week…
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Review your Student Learning Outcomes and
determine what assessment tools (assignments,
exams, surveys, projects, etc.) are appropriate
for determining if students achieving these
outcomes.