A Short List of Online Resources about Student Learning Outcomes

Good introductions to the topic:

• http://www.4faculty.org has several resources on the topic. Building your Syllabus addresses this in a step by step fashion. The Quick Start Guide section Preparing Your Syllabi and Planning for Assessment integrates materials from throughout 4faculty. Or, once in the site the following pages address this topic:
• Components of Good Online Design (the portion on learning outcomes is broadly applicable) http://www.4faculty.org/includes/digdeeper/online/lc_outcomes_based_instruc.htm
• Assessment Overview: http://www.4faculty.org/includes/106r1.jsp
  
• http://depts.washington.edu/learning/
  Student Learning Outcomes: A Faculty Resource on Development and Assessment from University of Washington (an attractive short course introduction to the topic)
  
• http://www.ksu.edu/apr/Learning/HowTo.htm
  How to write student learning outcomes from Kansas State University (another example, but not as clear as the Washington site)

Websites with lots of links to resources:

• http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/resource.htm
  Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment (perhaps the most comprehensive list of all)
  
• http://www.calstate.edu/acadaff/sloa/index.shtml
  Student Learning Outcomes in the CSU (some good links, but not clearly organized for the novice)
  
• http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listlearningjo3.html
  Hotlist of sites from Mendocino College

Examples of Student Learning Outcomes:

• Benchmarks for core skills http://www.palomar.edu/alp/benchmarks_for_core_skills.htm

Other Resources:

• http://www.apa.org/ed/new_blooms.html
  American Psychological Association site explaining Bloom’s Taxonomy
  
• http://www.calstate.edu/AcadAff/SLOA/links/rubrics.shtml
  Scoring Rubrics

Online tools:

• http://www.teachopolis.org and in particular http://www.teachopolis.org/myTA/index.html which contains web based program tools to help you write learning objectives, syllabi and perform various evaluations.
  
• http://www.studenthub.org – the link to the verbinator allows you to explore possible assignments or question, assess their difficulty according to Bloom’s taxonomy, and learn where student’s can find web resources to help them with the needed skills to complete the assignment or answer the question.