Mihaylo College
of Business and Economics
Creating Measurable
Learning Goals…Today!
Melissa Simnitt
Coordinator
Assessment & Instructional Support
Objectives
1. Investigate Learning Goals:
 What are they?
 Why do you need them?
 Where/How do you begin?
2. Create Learning Goals
 Measurable
 Matching strategic goals/mission
 Improve Learning, Operations
What are they?

Difference between a goal and an outcome
Goal vs. Objective
Be/Have vs. Do/Make
Does it really matter?
Example
Mihaylo Undergrad Learning Goal (#3c)
Goal - Students will be/have:
3) Interpersonal skills
Objective - Students will do/make:
c. Diagnose and resolve conflict in group and organizational
settings.
Why do you need them?
• Guided instruction
• Gives students an idea of where
you’re headed and what to expect
• Promises
Where should you begin?
 List
all of the skills your students receive from your course
 Worksheet
 TGI Worksheet
 Narrow down the five essential skills you want/need
students to leave with
 Apply the “why” to each
Where to begin – Continued…
 Apply “Bloom’s Taxonomy” (3 domains of learning)
 Revised – Handout
 Other Frameworks
 Knowledge & Conceptual Understanding
 Replicating a simple procedure; defining, summarizing, explaining
concepts
 Thinking & Other Skills
 Application and analysis; evaluation, problem-solving, decision-making
skills
 Attitudes, Values, Dispositions, and Habits of Mind
 Appreciate, integrity, ethics, attitudes, opinions
Should you consider department/college/institutional goals?
 Strategic Plans
 Mission and Vision Statements
What should you measure?

Start small
 Work with colleagues, when possible
 May need to reassure folks that assessment
of learning is NOT an evaluation of teaching
 Measure only what you want to or
can change
What measurement tools should you use?

Start small
 25% rule
 Use
what you’re already doing
 Course-embedded
 Direct vs. indirect
 Formative vs. summative
 Measure only what you want to/can change
What do you do with the results?

Closing the loop
 Who
are the results for?
 Accreditation
 Improvement
 Measure Twice, Close the Loop Once
 Next steps?
Mihaylo College
of Business and Economics
The End
Questions?