MAEL 214
Learning Outcomes and Assessment
To provide Educational Leaders with a comprehensive review of all the aspects pertinent to learning outcomes in today’s educational setting including the Bologna process. Moreover, participants will be able to see their significance with respect to the learning activities and assessment tasks that serve to provide evidence that the set Intended learning outcomes have been achieved by the learner to the desired level of competence.
By the end of this programme, participants should be able to:
a. A detailed understanding of the fundamentals of learning outcomes, their development and implementation for a particular educational setting;
b. Define the notion of aligning learning activities, and assessment tasks with learning outcomes as illustrated by the notion of Constructive Alignment (J. Biggs);
c. Acquire a thorough understanding of the meaning of 21st century skills and their significance in the development of outcomes-based learning;
d. Determine the fundamentals of formative and summative forms of assessment within the context of the 21st century and how these may shape the future of assessment at institutional and national levels.
a. Identify the learning outcomes for a given learning scenario;
b. Determine the best combination of teaching and learning activities that will support the
acquisition of the learning outcomes associated with a given learning scenario;
c. Determine the best form/s of assessment and assessment-related tasks to permit the learner to provide the required evidence indicating the acquisition of a particular learning outcome and at the same time enable the academic educator to assess the level of competence acquired by the
learner;
d. Apply these principles taking into account, individual learner’s needs within an Educational institution but also within a national framework whereby the academic educator will be operating.
This programme adopts continuous and summative methods of assessment including assignments, online tasks, reflective journals, projects and video presentations. For further details, kindly refer to the Teaching, Learning and Assessment Policy and Procedures.
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