{"id":744,"date":"2017-06-27T10:15:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T14:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apsi\/?page_id=744"},"modified":"2025-04-15T13:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:37:14","slug":"backwards-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apsi\/learning-outcomes-assessment\/curriculum-mapping-design\/backwards-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Backwards Design"},"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\/curriculum_mapping_design_header_1600x700_2.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                        Backwards Design\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditional models of teaching and instruction start with course activities and move towards assessment and the identification of learning outcomes. Following this model instructors choose to teach topics and skills they find most essential or interesting, or that align with directed curriculums or learning plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developed by Wiggins &amp; McTighe (2005) the \u201cbackwards design\u201d educational model starts with the identification of desired learning goals, objectives and outcomes. A curriculum is then developed to meet those specific goals, objectives, and outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"benefits-of-backwards-design\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benefits of Backwards Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Improved program organization: Knowing what the end result should be can provide a guiding structure to program components;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ease of assessment: Thinking about and planning for assessment at the start of a course or program ensures the appropriate data will be available for use;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increased student engagement: When program activities have a known objective or purpose, students perceive those activities as having more value to them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"references-and-resources\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">References and Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Wiggins, Grant, and Jay McTighe. (2005). Understanding by Design. Expanded 2nd Edition. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional models of teaching and instruction start with course activities and move towards assessment and the identification of learning outcomes. Following this model instructors choose to teach topics and skills they find most essential or interesting, or that align with directed curriculums or learning plans. 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