How are knowledge surveys useful?.
Developing and using a Knowledge Survey forces the faculty member to create a detailed “map” of expected knowledge/outcomes for students and for the faculty member him/herself. It is difficult to get anywhere if you don’t know where you are going; however, once armed with a “map” the student is able to “navigate” towards the destination and the faculty member can precisely plot progress on the chart. Are knowledge surveys suited better to some disciplines than to others? Any discipline whose course content can be expressed in words, numbers, images, or sounds (and that covers just about everyone) should be able to benefit from knowledge surveys. The project leaders are developing software to allow this kind of flexibility via surveys that will be hosted on-line. Does the cognitive level of my survey questions have to follow a distribution like that suggested by the Bloom taxonomy? No. The Bloom taxonomy is offered merely as a help and guide. Some courses may demand disproportionate num
