The Center for Teaching and Learning fosters a collaborative faculty community that builds on current best pedagogical practices across all disciplines and teaching modalities at Pratt: classroom, ...

Learning outcomes and objectives are the fundamental elements of most well-designed courses. Well-conceived outcomes and objectives serve as guideposts to help instructors work through the design of a ...

Learning outcomes explain what students should be able to achieve by the end of a course. This may be changes in their knowledge, skills, attitude or behaviors. Learning outcomes are the first element ...

Adult learning in the United States continues to evolve as colleges, universities, and professional programs adapt to the ...

At Hope College, courses in academic disciplines have an identified set of student learning outcomes. These are the measurable skills, knowledge, and behaviors students have upon completion of the ...

Student learning outcomes (SLOs) allow us to determine whether students are reaching the goals and objectives that we want them to achieve. They are expressed as specific statements describing the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how we can advance opportunity in education. Nov 04, 2025, 09:05am EST When the U.S. Department of Education ...

More districts are borrowing a page from other industry playbooks to hold vendors accountable: using outcomes-based contracts as they seek outside help to propel students’ academic recovery. Districts ...

Innovative community colleges have advanced many crucial priorities—introducing pathways, restructuring student services to improve the student experience and tackling barriers to student success ...

The courses completed for Area A requirements develop student’s communication and reasoning skills. Construct and deliver a variety of sustained, ordered, informative and persuasive oral messages ...

Pick one of your current course learning outcomes or create a new one based on a topic you teach. Evaluate the outcome using these questions: Is it specific and measurable? Does it focus on observable ...