In order for faculty and departments to succeed in educating students, they must establish what they hope students will learn. Broadly speaking, learning outcomes are the intended or expected ...

The sequence of courses that undergraduates complete to satisfy the Written, Oral, and Multimodal Communication (WOMC) component of the Unified General Education Requirements (UGER) ensures that ...

Learning outcomes are more than a checklist—they're a roadmap for both teaching and learning. When clear, measurable, and aligned with curriculum and assessments, they guide instruction, foster ...

Outcomes can be at the university, program or course level. Learning outcomes may be defined as the change in a student’s knowledge or skills as a result of the student’s experience(s). The focus of ...

After the Program Outcomes have been established, the next step and in many ways, the first step in the actual assessment cycle is to identify the learning outcomes that should occur for each course.

The Advanced Writing requirement is part of the Miami Plan. The goal of the requirement is to provide students with writing instruction, practice, and feedback that will serve as a foundation for the ...

Outcomes assessment is a systematic approach for documenting what students get out of our programs, services, courses and events. The question an outcomes-based assessment attempts to answer is "What ...

In the MFA program, we recognize that the pursuit of excellence in the arts must be understood in diverse, patient, and supple ways. Some of our graduates (like many writers) will not pursue further ...

To support staff members who facilitate learning and engagement opportunities, and to measure the extent to which students grow and learn after participating in such opportunities, the Student Affairs ...

Demonstrates close reading—attends to the details of the text, to its particular uses of language, to form and structure, manipulation of tone Attends to complexities in the text—recognizes ambiguity, ...