Assessment Reviewer

• Sources of Learning Outcomes

  • The institution's vision and mission statements
  • Policies, competencies, and standards issued by government education agencies such as the Department of Education (DepEd), Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED)
  • Professional Regulatory Boards of the Professional Regulations Commission competencies expected of professionals
• Characteristics of Good Learning Outcomes

  • Good learning outcomes are centered on the student/ learner
  • Good learning outcomes are based on and aligned with the institutional, program, and course outcomes
  • Good learning outcomes are based on and aligned with local, national, and international trends and issues
  • Good learning outcomes are known and are very well understood by both students and faculty
  • Good learning outcomes include a spectrum of thinking skills from simple remembering to creating or from the lowest and simplest cognitive, nonstructural process to cognitive in Bloom's and Anderson's revised taxonomy of objectives
  • Good learning outcomes are SMART
  • Good learning outcomes are useful and relevant to the learners
• Learner's understanding is demonstrated when they can

  • Explain- provide explanations
  • Interpret- Identify means
  • Apply- use knowledge in a new situation (New Schema)
  • Have perspective- see viewpoints through critical eyes
  • Empathize- able to find value in what others may find odd
  • Have self-knowledge- aware of what they do not understand