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Learning Outcomes Overview

The Learning Outcomes Primer housed here is a compilation of the Learning Outcomes articles published in the Koehler Center monthly eNewsletter. The Primer is a work in progress as each month brings a new chapter or sub-chapter to the document. However, this overview in Table-of-Contents form provides a means of organizing the content which, in sum, is presented in our ongoing series of short articles about learning outcomes. Clicking below on the name of an article will retrieve it for reading.

Introduction to Learning Outcomes (August 2008)
Understanding Student Learning Outcomes
- The Logic of Confidence, the Culture of Untested Assumptions (April 2009)
- What Are Outcomes? (September 2008)
- Defining Outcomes (February 2009)
- Learning Outcomes Terminology (September 2009)
- Identifying Past Students by the Learning Outcomes They Possess (July 2009)
- Learning Outcomes vs. “A Bunch of Stuff” (March 2009)
- Direct and Indirect Measures of Student Learning (January 2009)
- Learning Outcomes and the Core Curriculum (May 2009)
Learning Outcomes and the Syllabus (October 2008)
Rubrics
- Rubrics: An Introduction and Good News (November 2008)
- Rubrics and Benchmarks (December 2008)
- Analytic and Holistic Rubrics (October 2009)
Measuring & Tracking Student Achievement of Outcomes (November 2009)
- Formative and Summative Assessment (June 2009)
- Setting Student Achievement Improvement Goals (coming)
- What Does "Mapping Up" to an Outcome Mean? (August 2009)
Instructional Interventions to Improve Student Achievement (coming)
- Tools to Identify “Low-Hanging Fruit” (coming)
- Resources for Finding Instructional Interventions that Can Improve Student Learning Outcomes (coming)