Student Learning Outcomes define a knowledge, skill or disposition you want your students to master as a result of taking your course or completing your major/program. They are future focused: students will learn to... and provide a specific description of what a student will be able to do at the end of the period during which that ability is presumed to have been acquired. These outcomes are the focus of many assessment practices.
While many resources use the terms outcomes and objectives interchangeably, the key reason we use the term outcomes is that: "Learning goals and objectives generally describe what an instructor, program, or institution aims to do, whereas, a learning outcome describes in observable and measurable terms what a student is able to do as a result of completing a learning experience (e.g., course, project, or unit)."*
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The Office of Academic Assessment assists faculty and departments with the development and evaluation of both course and program level outcomes. The primary differences between the two are the time period over which students' learning takes place, and the way that learning is measured.
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