Formulate Consequential Student Learning Outcomes

Student learning outcomes have emerged as a major issue for higher education in terms of accreditation accountability and performance indicators and performance funding. Student Learning Outcomes are measurable cognitive psychomotor or affective skills or knowledge acquired which embody the overarching goals of a course or program. Both course and programs have SLOs. Course SLOs should be aligned with the program SLOs for the program that the course belongs to. This handbook is intended to serve as a resource for Faculty staff academic leaders and educational developers engaged in program and course design/review and the assessment of program-level learning outcomes for program improvement. Student learning should keep a sharp focus on differences in learning outcomes when studying the relationships between context perceptions and evaluations of context and approaches to learning.