Who has the final say that a course meets a Learning Outcome?
It is stated in the ALC Approved Curriculum Mapping Guidelines (November 1, 2007), “Through the Curriculum Mapping process, fulltime faculty in a discipline collectively determine the Outcome(s) that will be present in all offerings of each course in the discipline.” It is the job of individual faculty to see that the Outcomes are intentionally present and assessed in each section of a course. Based on the assessment strategy designed by each individual faculty member to measure student performance on the Outcome for his/her section of the course, that faculty member will “have the final say” as to whether or not the Outcome is being met. Based on that same data, the faculty member also has the opportunity and responsibility to strengthen student learning related to the Outcome.
