Academic Affairs - Program Review Year Zero
Deliverable:
- Curriculum mapping
- Program Mission Statement
- Program Goals (optional)
- Program Learning Outcomes
- General Education Competency Contribution
- End of Year Deliverable Report
Curriculum Mapping is an outcomes assessment process involving an analysis of the curriculum. Mapping is an evidence-based way that organizes a visual matrix/tool used to identify relationships between different institution learning structures.
Mapping is inherently about alignment in educational environments around learning, and as Jankowski (2017) observes, alignment is “a mechanism by which to counteract incoherence and fragmentation of the college experience.” Mapping, therefore, is a strategy for visualizing the areas of where we think learning is happening as it relates to specific learning outcomes (NILOA, 2018).
The process examines the connections (and/or misconnections) within a program’s progression of student knowledge/skill/application of subject matter, identifies general education competency pathways, and incorporates institutional goals/mission.
Snapshot of Deliverables:
An abridged version of the Instruction Guide.
Instruction Guide:
Resources:
- Mapping Learning
- National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment-Curriculum Mapping
- Community College Research Center
- Curriculum Mapping Process
- Chairs/Coordinator Presentation
- Mapping Learning: A Toolkit
- Mapping Learning Outcomes
- AAC&U’s LEAP Essential Learning Outcomes, Degree Qualifications Profile, NACE Competencies or CAS Standards
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UConn Assessment Program Statement Guide (Retrieved, 2022)
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UCF Program Assessment Handbook Chapter 3 (Retrieved, 2022)
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UConn Assessment Program Goals (Retrieved, 2022)
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“What are goals and objectives”? (NILOA) LARC Grant Project
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Blooms Taxonomy (Retrieved, 2021 from Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching)
Blooms Taxonomy and Writing Student Learning Outcomes
Templates:
Dynamic Forms for Curriculum Changes