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What’s the Point? Developing (or Re-writing ) Learning Outcomes for Your FYE Course. Barbara Boyette Clay Harshaw Guilford College. Overview. Our first-year classes Why we did it How we did it Outcome. First- Year Experience. FYE 101 Learning Outcomes FYE 102.
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What’s the Point? Developing (or Re-writing) Learning Outcomes for Your FYE Course Barbara Boyette Clay Harshaw GuilfordCollege
Overview • Our first-year classes • Why we did it • How we did it • Outcome
First-YearExperience • FYE 101 • Learning Outcomes • FYE 102
Why Learning Outcomes • Garbage bag class • No common guiding goals • Gave validity
How WeDeveloped the Outcomes • Borrowed the model from the University of South Carolina • Assembled the committee • Initiated with discussion on: Who are our students?
Generating Content • Committee 10 card themes/content • 10 ideas from FYE 101/102 instructors • Ideas from students
Common Threads • Committee found common themes • Used other institutions’ learning objectives as guides • Crafted our own
Results • Curriculum committee buy-in • FYE 102 buy-in • Shaped this class as should be • Referred to goals when faculty requested to add something • Guiding objectives and means for assessment
Assessment • Assessing learning outcomes • How this helps us