Individual Assessment #1 - Outcomes

Timeline

• Suggested Timeline
  • Friday, July 15

Assignment

It is hard to give a "competency demo" over the material from a project like this. You have not really learned new material that I am trying to assess whether you have mastered (although you, in fact, may have learned quite a bit more about what it means to design curriculum which is one of the outcomes from earlier).  In that regard, it doesn't really fit a traditional "competency demo"

However, I still need to assess whether you are moving forward with learning for this course and, specifically, for the material about course design. 

To provide that assessment I am asking you to complete four, individually written, deliverables over the duration of this project.  Each will correspond to one of the elements of your team's design document.  Each will give you an opportunity to reflect on the process and your participation in your team's efforts.  Each will follow the common structure outlined below:

1. Provide a 2-3 paragraph review of what you think about your team's deliverable for this stage when it comes to designing course outcomes.
2. What do you feel you learned about designing curriculum from this part of the activity?
3. Select the three outcomes you think are MOST important to this course design. 
• Why are they important in this type of course and where do you think students might use these outcomes in the future?
4. Select the two outcomes you think are LEAST important to this course design.  Why aren't they important to you? 
• If you threw them out would you replace them with something that isn't included at this point or would you beef up the expectations for the remaining outcomes?
• BTW, There are at least two reasons I think you might have outcomes in your document that don't excite you. 
  • The first is that the other members of your team feel strongly about them and "talked you into" including them in the deliverable.
  • The second is that they are part of a state standard or school district expectation but you just aren't excited by this topic.
  • There likely are others
5. What is one question you still have about identifying outcomes as part of curriculum design.