{"id":735,"date":"2017-06-27T09:17:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T13:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apsi\/?page_id=735"},"modified":"2025-04-15T13:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:21:10","slug":"selecting-evidence-learning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apsi\/learning-outcomes-assessment\/program-assessment-tools\/selecting-evidence-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Selecting Evidence of Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/learning_outcomes_header_1600x700_3-1.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Selecting Evidence of Learning\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Evidence of learning can take many forms \u2013 from essays and exam questions, to portfolios and presentations. With so many choices, deciding on which evidence to use in the assessment of individual learning outcomes can be a daunting task.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of common learning outcomes and the types of evidence that are well-suited to their assessment.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"thinking-critically-and-making-judgments\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thinking critically and making judgments<\/h2><p>(Developing arguments, reflecting, evaluating, assessing, judging)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cuportfoliosupport\/about\/\">cuPortfolio<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Essay<\/li>\n<li>Report<\/li>\n<li>Journal<\/li>\n<li>Letter of advice to \u2026 (about policy, public health matters \u2026 )<\/li>\n<li>Present a case for an interest group<\/li>\n<li>Prepare a committee briefing paper for a specific meeting<\/li>\n<li>Book review (or article) for a particular journal<\/li>\n<li>Write a newspaper article for a foreign newspaper<\/li>\n<li>Comment on an article\u2019s theoretical perspective<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"solving-problems-and-developing-plans\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solving problems and developing plans<\/h2><p>(Identifying problems, posing problems, defining problems, analysing data, reviewing, designing experiments, planning, applying information)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Problem scenario<\/li>\n<li>Group work<\/li>\n<li>Work-based problem<\/li>\n<li>Prepare a committee of enquiry report<\/li>\n<li>Draft a research bid to a realistic brief<\/li>\n<li>Analyse a case<\/li>\n<li>Conference paper (or notes for a conference paper plus annotated bibliography)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"performing-procedures-and-demonstrating-techniques\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Performing procedures and demonstrating techniques<\/h2><p>(Computation, taking readings, using equipment, following laboratory procedures, following protocols, carrying out instructions)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demonstration<\/li>\n<li>Role play<\/li>\n<li>Make a video (write script and produce\/make a video)<\/li>\n<li>Produce a poster<\/li>\n<li>Lab report<\/li>\n<li>Prepare an illustrated manual on using the equipment for a particular audience<\/li>\n<li>Observation of real or simulated professional practice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"managing-and-developing-oneself\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Managing and developing oneself<\/h2><p>(Working cooperatively, working independently, learning independently, being self-directed, managing time, managing tasks, organising)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Journal<\/li>\n<li>Portfolio<\/li>\n<li>Learning contract<\/li>\n<li>Group work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"accessing-and-managing-information\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accessing and managing information<\/h2><p>(Researching, investigating, interpreting, organising information, reviewing and paraphrasing information, collecting data, searching and managing information sources, observing and interpreting)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Annotated bibliography<\/li>\n<li>Project<\/li>\n<li>Dissertation<\/li>\n<li>Applied task<\/li>\n<li>Applied problem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"demonstrating-knowledge-and-understanding\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Demonstrating knowledge and understanding<\/h2><p>(Recalling, describing, reporting, recounting, recognising, identifying, relating and interrelating)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Written examination<\/li>\n<li>Oral examination<\/li>\n<li>Essay<\/li>\n<li>Report<\/li>\n<li>Comment on the accuracy of a set of records<\/li>\n<li>Devise an encyclopaedia entry<\/li>\n<li>Produce an A\u2013Z of&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Write an answer to a client\u2019s question<\/li>\n<li>Short-answer questions: true\/false\/ multiple-choice questions (paper-based or computer-aided assessment)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"designing-creating-performing\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Designing, creating, performing<\/h2><p>(Imagining, visualising, designing, producing, creating, innovating, performing)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Portfolio<\/li>\n<li>Performance<\/li>\n<li>Presentation<\/li>\n<li>Projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"communicating\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Communicating<\/h2><p>(One and two-way communication; communication within a group, verbal, written and non-verbal communication. Arguing, describing, advocating, interviewing, negotiating, presenting; using specific written forms.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Written presentation (essay, report, reflective paper etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Oral presentation<\/li>\n<li>Group work<\/li>\n<li>Discussion\/debate\/role play<\/li>\n<li>Participate in a &#8216;Court of Inquiry&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Presentation to camera<\/li>\n<li>Observation of real or simulated professional practice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence of learning can take many forms \u2013 from essays and exam questions, to portfolios and presentations. With so many choices, deciding on which evidence to use in the assessment of individual learning outcomes can be a daunting task. 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