Writing Learning Outcomes
Lesia Yamelynets
Learning outcomes help students:
-understand why that knowledge and those skills will be useful to them;
-focus on the context and potential applications of knowledge and skills;
-connect learning in various contexts;
-help guide assessment and evaluation;
Level 1: Remember�Students are able to exhibit memory of previously learned materials by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts, and answers.��Active Verbs: choose, define, find, how, label, list, match, name, omit, recall, relate, select, show, spell, tell, identify, describe, copy, locate, recognize, memorize, quote, reproduce, discover, duplicate, listen
Students are able to demonstrate understanding of facts and ideas by interpreting, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing and explaining main ideas.
Active Verbs: classify, compare, contrast, extend, demonstrate, explain, illustrate, infer, interpret, outline, relate, rephrase, show, summarize, select, translate, describe, paraphrase, ask, differentiate, discuss, express, distinguish, restate, group
Students are able to solve problems in new situations by applying acquired knowledge, facts, techniques and rules in a different way.
Active Verbs: calculate, predict, apply, solve, illustrate, use, demonstrate, determine, model, build, construct, develop, experiment with, identify, make use of, organize, plan, select, solve, utilize
Students are able to examine and break information into parts by identifying motives, causes and relationships. They can make inferences and find evidence to support generalization.
Active Verbs: classify, outline, break down, categorize, analyze, diagram, illustrate, assume, compare, conclusion, contrast, discover, dissect, distinguish, divide, examine, function, inference, inspect, list, motive, relationships, simplify, survey, take part in, test for
Students are able to present and defend opinions by making judgments about information, validity of ideas, or quality of work based on a set of criteria. They can justify a decision or course of action.
Active Verbs: design, formulate, build, invent, create, compose, generate, modify, develop, agree, appraise, assess, award, choose, compare, conclude, criteria, criticize, decide, deduct, defend, determine, disprove, estimate, evaluate, explain, influence, judge, interpret, justify, mark, measure, perceive, prioritize, rate, recommend, rule on, select, support, value
Students are able to compile, generate or view information, ideas or products together in a different way by combining elements in a new pattern or by proposing alternative solutions.
Active Verbs: adapt, build, change, choose, combine, compile, compose, construct, create, delete, design, develop, discuss, elaborate, estimate, formulate, happen, imagine, improve, invent, make up, maximize, modify, originate, plan, predict, propose, solve, suppose, test, hypothesize, substitute, compile, develop, rearrange, anticipate, assemble, collaborate, collect, devise, imagine, intervene
Taboo words in the learning outcomes
• believe
• hear
• realize
• recognize
• comprehend
• know
• see
• listen
• memorize
• think
• experience
• understand
• feel
• be interested in
• be familiar with
• realize the significance
• become acquainted with