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In my last post about the inverted/flipped calculus class, I stressed the importance of Guided Practice as a way of structuring students’ pre-class activities and as a means of teaching self-regulated ...
What is Terminal Learning Objective? This is a statement of what a learner will be able to do at the end of a course of instruction. Any course of instruction, whether practical or academic, should ...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to report on the employment of Bloom's revised taxonomy as a means to describe, assess and revise the learning objectives postsecondary instructors ...
Quality Matters Specific Standard 5.1 is “The learning activities promote the achievement of the stated learning objectives or competencies.” The purpose of learning activities is to provide students ...
Have you or your program conducted and completed the analysis steps? Then, you are ready to begin the Backwards Design process for creating your course and developing learning goals, objectives, and ...
Having good learning goals (also called "learning objectives" or "learning outcomes") is key to taking an evidence-based approach to education. This means faculty members laying out learning goals for ...
Rick: A lot of parents and educators may be familiar with the phrase “mastery learning” but not have a clear idea what it means in practice. What is it exactly? Scott: My journey began in 2012 when I ...
Brief description of learning objective: Students will apply techniques of critical analysis to the study and interpretation of the arts (which includes such disciplines as dance, music, theater, ...
Brief description of learning objective: Students will be able to describe the processes by which past and present societies have been created and perpetuated through their history, ideas and cultural ...
It’s 9:38 on a Friday morning, and I’m standing in front of a classroom full of students, trying to convince myself that I belong there. I’m a teaching assistant for my university’s history department ...