Learning Outcomes Assessment: Understanding and Using Evidence to Guide Teaching, Learning, & Policy

The practice of assessment and its impacts on education policy and curriculum. Course introduces undergraduate students to the practice of learning outcomes assessment in higher education – its traditions, contexts, and objectives. Students will cultivate critical judgment about the issues facing higher education and the ways in which the practice of assessment can help explain and mitigate those issues. At some point in their careers, students will be asked to design, execute, or evaluate a body of research. Course provides fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to engage in social science research, particularly research in education.