Writing Learning Outcomes

Excellent guide to writing outcomes. It introduces SMART criteria, ‘action verbs’, and the need to split outcomes into ‘Knowledge’, ‘Skills’ and ‘Attitudes’. It also introduces both Bloom’s and Fink’s taxonomies to help choose a spread of good outcomes.

Ideas for CPD interventions
Ask staff to review the article and then look at their existing objectives and/or outcomes and assess their value. What could be improved? What might a rephrased outcome look like for the reviewed course.