Learning Outcomes

EDU645: Learning and Assessment
for the 21st Centruy

Three Learning Outcomes for the 12th Grade Introduction to World Religion Class

All Religions

Tests and assessments are valuable tools to help gauge a students progress as well as a meter as to how the teacher is performing. This should not be the only factor considered by any means however. Objectives and learning outcomes must be precise and clear from the beginning (Kubiszyn & Borich, 2012). This is the first and foremost step in being able to create a reliable assessment test to measure students acquirement of knowledge to include comprehension, analysis, evaluation, inference and application of the material (Kubiszyn & Borich, 2012) . To create a true and valid image of a students progress, an assessment must include each and every objective and learning outcome to be successful (Combs, Gibson, Hays, Saly & Wendt, 2008). In world religion studies, it is important that student grasp the understanding of the nation, culture and traditions from each religion in order to see how religions truly do merge and spring forth from one another. Below are three learning outcomes for the first world religion, Hinduism:

1.) Student will learn the meaning of the Trimurti (the three Gods) of Hinduism

Lord Shiva, one of the Three Gods of the Trimurti

2.) Student will be able to identify and comprehend each of the three Gods of the Trimurti (Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva) and their separate reasons for being.

3.) Student will be able to evaluate and apply the differences of each God and then why all three god's must coexist together in order for life and the universe to continue.

Once clear and precise objectives and learning outcomes are properly defined, an educator can then move on to making a valid and proper assessment to test the learning outcomes. To be continued in week 3.

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