The resource offers an excellent, concise overview of the Constructive Alignment theory and should be compulsory reading for all academics. It also contains some examples of how to organize assessment tasks to align with Bloom’s higher order thinking skills.

**Ideas for CPD Interventions**  
Ask academic staff to devise a set of assessments that align with different learning objectives e.g. recall, interpret, apply, create and evaluate for a course they are running.



Creators

Carnegie Mellon University Eberly Centre

 

 

URL

<https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/assessment/basics/alignment.html>

 

 

Type

Readings/Reference Materials

 

CPD Framework and Domain

Academics

Course Design

Align outcomes, activities, and assessment

 

 

Copyright license

Creative Commons: Attribution-Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0

 

Publisher/Source

Carnegie Mellon University Eberly Centre