II.2 The learning outcomes address content mastery, critical thinking skills, and core learning skills.

● REQUIRED STANDARD

Expectations

• 1. While learning outcomes should be easy enough to understand there should still be use of content mastery and critical thinking skills in the learning outcomes at the course and unit/module level.

  2. Critical thinking skills may include the ability to:

     • distinguish between fact and opinion

     • distinguish between primary and secondary sources

     • identify bias and stereotypes

     • evaluate information sources for point of view, accuracy, usefulness, and timeliness

Examples

• • Select appropriate tax strategies for different financial and personal situations.

  • Develop a comprehensive, individualized wellness-action program focused on overcoming a sedentary lifestyle.

  • Identify the three different ways rocks are formed by learning methods and characteristics of each type: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary.

  • Differentiate the various major periods of music by learning the evolutionary path music takes during those periods.

References:

• • QM FIPSE rubric II.2