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