Excellent guide to writing outcomes. It introduces SMART criteria, ‘action verbs’, and the need to split outcomes into ‘Knowledge’, ‘Skills’ and ‘Attitudes’. It also introduces both Bloom’s and Fink’s taxonomies to help choose a spread of good outcomes.

**Ideas for CPD interventions**  
Ask staff to review the article and then look at their existing objectives and/or outcomes and assess their value. What could be improved? What might a rephrased outcome look like for the reviewed course.



Creators

Joerdis Weilandt

 

 

Year

2021

 

URL

[https://pressbooks.openeducationalberta.ca/orientationhandbook/chapter/writing-…](https://pressbooks.openeducationalberta.ca/orientationhandbook/chapter/writing-learning-outcomes/)

 

 

Type

Readings/Reference Materials

 

CPD Framework and Domain

Academics

Course Design

Develop purpose, goals, and learning outcomes for the course

 

 

Copyright license

Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0

 

Publisher/Source

Open Education Alberta