In my last post about the inverted/flipped calculus class, I stressed the importance of Guided Practice as a way of structuring students’ pre-class activities and as a means of teaching self-regulated ...

What is Terminal Learning Objective? This is a statement of what a learner will be able to do at the end of a course of instruction. Any course of instruction, whether practical or academic, should ...

Abstract The purpose of this study was to report on the employment of Bloom's revised taxonomy as a means to describe, assess and revise the learning objectives postsecondary instructors ...

As a college professor, trying to get students excited about the work I have to grade later can be one of the more frustrating things about teaching. But when an assignment hits the right chord, it ...

Have you or your program conducted and completed the analysis steps? Then, you are ready to begin the Backwards Design process for creating your course and developing learning goals, objectives, and ...

Quality Matters Specific Standard 5.1 is “The learning activities promote the achievement of the stated learning objectives or competencies.” The purpose of learning activities is to provide students ...

Having good learning goals (also called "learning objectives" or "learning outcomes") is key to taking an evidence-based approach to education. This means faculty members laying out learning goals for ...

Rick: A lot of parents and educators may be familiar with the phrase “mastery learning” but not have a clear idea what it means in practice. What is it exactly? Scott: My journey began in 2012 when I ...