Course Specification Training - Staff Development

1. Developing
Course
Specifications
Parsa
Zoqaqi
Director,
Centre
for
General
Studies
September
11,
2012

2. Overview
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• Course
specifications
• Intended
Learning
Outcomes
(ILOs)
• Assessment
and
Evaluation

3. Course
Specification
Sections
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• Course
and
instructor
• Course
structure
details
• Weighting
of
• Aims
of
the
course
assessments
• ILO’s
• Resources
• Teaching
and
learning
methods
• Assessment
methods

4. Intended
Learning
Outcomes
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Declared
Learned
Taught

5. Definition
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Specific
statements
of
what
the
learner
will
be
able
to
know,
understand,
and
be
able
to
do
(action
verbs)
by
the
end
of
the
semester
(condition)

6. Why
ILOs
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• Guide
students
• Help
faculty
members
focus
• Provide
link
with
teaching
strategies
and
assessment
methods

7. ILOs
Across
the
Institution
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8. Writing
ILOs
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• The
statement
of
ILOs
begin
with
upon
completion
of
the
course,
students
are
expected
to
be
able
to…
• Measurable
• All
written
in
future
tense
•
Contain
active
verbs
• Include
an
object
• Indicate
context
or
condition
• Use
variety
of
cognitive
levels
in
Bloom’s
Taxonomy

9. Categories
of
ILOs
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• Knowledge
and
Understanding
• Subject-­‐specific
Skills
• Thinking
Skills
• General
and
Transferable
skills

10. Knowledge
and
Understanding
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• Relates
to
overall
subject
matter
• Main
information
gained
• Concepts
understood
• Ability
of
the
student
to
recall
or
explain
information

11. Subject-­‐specific
Skills
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• Practices
integral
to
the
course
e.g.
language
skills,
laboratory
skills,
etc.
• Gained
in
the
course
• Required
for
success
in
the
course

12. Thinking
Skills
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• Problem
solving
• Higher
order
thinking
• Critical
thinking
,
analysis
and
evaluation
• Conclusion
drawing

13. General
and
Transferable
Skills
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• Based
on
graduate
attributes
(generic)
• Maybe
the
same
in
a
number
of
courses
• Go
beyond
the
course
and
sometimes
the
programme

14. Bloom’s
Taxonomy
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Hierarchy
of
objectives
according
to
cognitive
complexity
• Knowledge
• Comprehension
• Application
• Analysis
• Synthesis
• Evaluation

15. Active
Verbs
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Knowledge
Arrange,
order,
define,
recognise,
duplicate,
label,
identify,
recall,
list,
repeat,
memorise,
name
state,
relate,
reproduce,
record.
Comprehension
/
Classify,
locate,
describe,
observe,
recognise,
discuss,
report,
explain,
Understanding
restate,
express,
review,
select,
indicate,
translate.
Application
Apply,
operate,
choose,
practice,
demonstrate,
schedule,
dramatise,
sketch,
employ,
solve,
illustrate,
use,
interpret,
write.
Analysis
Analyse,
differentiate,
plan,
appraise,
discriminate,
calculate,
distinguish,
categorise,
examine,
compare,
experiment,
contrast,
question,
criticise,
test.
Synthesis
Arrange,
organise,
initiate,
formulate,
assemble,
manage,
collect,
compose,
plan,
contrast,
prepare,
create,
propose,
write,
conceptualise,
elaborate,
distil,
synthesise,
associate,
connect,
develop,
produce.

16. Active
Verbs
cont’d.
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creativity
Create,
imagine,
visualise,
hypothesise,
generate
ideas,
associate,
connect,
design,
consider
possibilities,
adapt.
Evaluation
Evaluate,
estimate,
measure,
assess,
judge,
criticise,
compare,
appraise,
discriminate.
Problem
solving
Solve,
resolve,
identify,
recognise,
apply,
propose,
choose,
implement,
assess,
formulate,
select,
define,
provide
options,
plan,
describe
a
course
of
action.
Communication
Communicate,
examine,
debate,
respond,
defend,
demonstrate,
express,
question,
explain,
advocate,
articulate,
formulate,
justify,
illustrate,
summarise,
present.

17. Assessment
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• All
ILOs
covered
• Cap
on
50%
• 10%
participation
• Midterm
and
Final

18. Examples
of
Assessments
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• Projects
• Multiple
choice
• Case
studies
• Open
questions
• Simulations
• Observations
of
performance
• Role
plays
• Artifacts
• Presentations
• Audio
recordings
• Demonstrations
• Video
performance
• Short
&
long
answer
questions
• Essays

19. Instructional
Design
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• Outcome:
what
should
the
students
be
able
to
do?
• Curriculum:
what
do
they
need
to
know
in
order
to
do
the
task?
• Pedagogy:
what
activity
will
facilitate
the
learning?
• Assessment:
how
will
they
demonstrate
the
learning?
• Criteria:
How
will
I
know
the
students
have
done
the
task
well?

20. Thank
you!