FDC Learning Assessment Resources

To help you more easily find the resources you need for student learning assessment, we have reorganized our pages and added new resources. To get started, we suggest you read An Assessment Walkthrough, a short document that previews the learning assessment cycle and offers suggestions for beginning or continuing your assessment work.

Student Learning OutcomesCurriculum Mapping | Direct Measures: Rubrics & Tests | Closing the Loop

The Learning Assessment Loop

 

After we clarify the desired results of a course or program, stipulate what that learning looks like, and design the learning opportunity, we need a systematic way to find out if our backward design worked. Did students demonstrate the “desired results?” We use the learning assessment loop to analyze how effectively our course and curriculum designs have helped students to learn.

The learning assessment loop’s four steps help us to apply research-based best practices to improving student learning. The linked pages will help you to …

  1. Craft, clarify, and align student learning outcomes;
  2. Analyze learning opportunities through curriculum mapping;
  3. Measure student learning with direct measures; and
  4. Close the loop, or analyze and apply the learning results.

Additional Assessment Resources

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Student Learning OutcomesCurriculum Mapping | Direct Measures: Rubrics & Tests | Closing the Loop

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