How do you feel when it’s time to talk about or write your course learning outcomes? Do you feel excited? Energized and ready to pull out a list of measurable learning outcome verbs? Or, do you take a deep sigh. Do you feel overwhelmed? Wanting someone else to do it? Or, do you get yourselfContinue reading “How do learning outcomes make you feel?”
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Learning Outcome Verb List for Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning
Download our list of learning outcome verbs that align with Dee Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning. A word of caution about using verbs as a magical solution. As a study by Claudia Stanny exemplifies, an analysis of 30 widely-used compilations of verbs for Bloom’s categories revealed that many lists frequently put the same verb inContinue reading “Learning Outcome Verb List for Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning”
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Benefits and Limitations
Many college educators are familiar with Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain. This well-known categorization of learning, developed by a team of scholars but often attributed to the first author, Benjamin Bloom, has been used by countless educators to design, structure, and assess learning. The six categories in Bloom’s Taxonomy for the Cognitive Domain –Continue reading “Bloom’s Taxonomy: Benefits and Limitations”