116 Connecting Objectives to Activities with Casey Gallimore 04.05.2018

What do you hope your students learn in your course? How do you use these learning objectives to steer your learning activities and assessments? In the April 5, 2018 Active Teaching Exchange, Casey Gallimore from the School of Pharmacy prompted participants to examine these questions for themselves and shared how she links program objectives to learning activities in her own courses. 

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Takeaways

• Pharmacy did a project to better align the program goals with the actual learning activities in their courses.
  • Steps:
  • ID program objectives
  • Create mapping tool (now shareable!)
  • Map out course
  • Which of the program objectives will fit in which course
  • This process identified some inadequately-written program objectives,
  • so they rewrote and improved the program objectives.
• Analyze map to identify gaps
  • was the objective covered?
  • Is it covered deeply enough?
  • Was it covered but not assessed?
  • Was it covered too many (unnecessary) times?
  • Was the objective connected to a real-world practice? (can students see why they’re doing it?)
• Design/redesign activities based on gap analysis
  • Use backwards design: start with goals, then acceptable evidence, then activity
  • Goals: Program Objectives → Course Objectives → Activity objectives

Video

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