Meaningful Course Revision: Enhancing Academic Engagement Using Student Learning Data

Faculty often make course changes based on reasons other than data. Intuition or student comments and satisfaction may be important guides, but they don't tell how much a student is learning or whether that learning transfers to other courses. This book makes the case for the use of multiple, direct measures of student learning outcomes data to enhance course development and guide meaningful course revision and decision-making. Focusing on student learning as the reason for course revision is essential. "Meaningful Course Revision" is a practical guide for collecting information about how well students are reaching your course goals, learning what impact your changes are having on student learning, and putting your courses into a cycle of continual revision and improvement. It will also benefit your students and keep your teaching interesting, fresh, and enjoyable.

Contents include: Date-Based Decision-Making Designing Course-Based Using Data Enhance Innovation in Course Redesign Rethinking Teaching and Learning Embedding Assessment Activities in Meaningful Ways Planning The Course Closing the Feedback Loop Moving from Course-Level Decision-Making to Departmental Curriculum Planning Creating a Culture of Student Learning Outcomes Assessment

Faculty are often motivated to change the activities and design of their courses for reasons not based on data. In "Meaningful Course Revision," the author seeks instead to illustrate how the appropriate use of multiple, direct measures of student-learning outcomes can lead to enhanced course development and revision. While providing an outline of methods for creating significant learning experiences, the book also includes practical suggestions for shaping the design of a course to meet student needs.

"Meaningful Course Revision" urges a rethinking of teaching and learning. By making student advancement its focal point, it offers guidance through Data-based decision making Designing course-based assessment activities Using data to enhance innovation in course redesign Rethinking teaching and learning Embedding assessment activities in meaningful ways Planning the course Closing the feedback loop Moving from course-level decision making to departmental curriculum planning Creating a culture of student-learning outcomes assessment

Written for faculty seeking advice on how to keep their teaching interesting and effective, "Meaningful Course Revision" is a practical guide for collecting information about how well students are reaching course goals, learning what impact course changes are having on student learning, and putting courses into a cycle of continual revision and improvement.