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Learning Outcomes

Lead Campus
Queen’s University

Partners
University of British Columbia
University of Saskatchewan

Description
A Research Action Cluster focused on learning outcomes began to take shape in 2012 with a workshop at Queen’s University to explore the role of pedagogical support units in stimulating improvement. This event led to a formal proposal to begin a research action cluster, with leadership from Queen’s, which was approved and launched with a workshop in fall 2013 attended by six campuses and members of the BVA Hub. This RAC was characterized by an evolving focus in which participants explored a variety of issues related to the role of Centers for Teaching and Learning: most notably, the role of centers in promoting best practices for teaching transferrable cognitive skills; how such centers can work with departments around curriculum development; and (more recently) the assessment of student learning outcomes. The RAC has generated a number of products and outcomes from this work including:

A framework on factors enabling or limiting curriculum renewal efforts

A published paper

Bens, S., Kolomitro, K., & Han, A. (Accepted). Curriculum Development: Enabling and Limiting Factors. International Journal for Academic Development.

Conference presentations

A working group on assessment

A resource on online assessment of student learning

Publications from Queen’s University’s work on assessment

Contact
Brian Frank
brian.frank@queensu.ca

Klodiana Kolomitro
kk78@queensu.ca

 

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