In course design, constructive alignment is premised on the idea that meeting learning outcomes involves aligning them with relevant assessment methods, and appropriate teaching and learning strategies.
Aligning course learning outcomes with program and institutional learning outcomes, where possible, can support course design:
- Intended learning outcomes for a course where possible are connected and influenced by the institutional learning outcomes (or graduate attributes).
- The course learning outcomes ideally define the assessment criteria that is used to design student assessment methods. This is the connection between what the students need to know, do and value by the end of the course and how they will demonstrate/how you will observer the learning of these outcomes.
- Students (guided by learning outcomes and assessment methods) will construct learning (predefined by learning outcomes and tested by assessment methods) through appropriately designed teaching and learning strategies.
- The assessment methods may uncover new learning outcomes (be them intended or unintended) which may or may not be included in the overall course outcomes.
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