What does learning assessment mean in terms of curricular design and syllabus changes?
Learning assessment provides additional sources of information/data for program development and curriculum planning. For example, there will be a need to determine where, within the program of study, a particular outcome is covered and assessed. This may result in revision of course learning outcomes. In addition, there may be instances where faculty will select a common assessment tool(s) across course sections in order to best demonstrate an outcome and improvement in student learning. There will be no changes necessary if the program curriculum (i.e., the learning objectives) match the specified program outcomes and student learning data show positive performance gains. There is more information on the Curriculum and/or Syllabus Development web pages on the YC Website.
