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How to Formulate Relevant and Assessable Learning Outcomes in Statistics
Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University, Vaxjo, Sweden
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Abstract
Course syllabuses, outlines or similar academic documents specifying the content of a course will often be a helpful tool both for teachers and students to grasp the content and purpose of a course. In many cases, however, the compilation of such documents is a painstaking process for the educator designing it, and is a task that many teachers will shun. In this paper we propose a fairly simple pedagogical model for designing specific learning outcomes that the students are expected to attain after completion of a course.
KeywordsLearning AssessmentCourse SyllabusStatistics
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