Learning Outcomes

26. Module Learning Outcomes should follow the following guidelines:

• An outcome should be expressed in terms of what students should be able to do on completion of the module.
• The list of outcomes may distinguish between ‘specific', directly assessed, outcomes and ‘general' outcomes which are broader in nature and not assessable directly by the methods of assessment in any one module.
• An outcome should be expressed in wording such that it is possible to envisage a student being able to achieve it on a scale from ‘fully' through ‘partially' to ‘not at all'.
• The demands on students, as indicated by the intended learning outcomes, should be appropriate to the level of the module (see institutional level descriptors for what is understood by ‘level 1', etc.).
• The outcomes should be assessable across the range of the student cohort for which the module is designed.
• A set of outcomes for a module would normally include a range of types of student attainment (knowledge, understanding, skills).
• It is not expected that there would be more than about 8 outcomes identified for a particular module.