Program Outcomes

To answer whether our graduates have met our learning expectations, our degree and certificate programs identify what students need to know and be able to do as a result of completing a degree program.

Degree and certificate programs have identified their program outcomes and are submitted to the Office of Assessment and Program Review.

Blooms Taxonomy Revised: A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing

Benjamin Bloom and colleagues (1956) created the original taxonomy of the cognitive domain for categorizing level of abstraction of questions that commonly occur in educational settings. That work has been revised to help teachers understand and implement a standards-based curriculum (Anderson & Krathwol, 2001). For the instructional designer, the taxonomy provides a comprehensive set of classifications for learner cognitive processes that are included in instructional objectives. Classifying instructional objectives using the taxonomy helps to determine the levels of learning included in an instructional unit or lesson.

Categories/Skill	Cognitive Process / Sample prompts	Purpose	Level
Remembering	Retrieve relevant knowledge from long-term memory recognize, list, describe, identify, retrieve, name	memorize and recall facts	Lower
Understanding	Construct meaning from instructional messages, including oral, written, and graphic communication describe, explain, estimate, predict	understand and interpret meaning	Lower
Applying	Carry out or use a procedure in a given situation implement, carry out, use, apply, show, solve	apply knowledge to new situations	Lower
Analyzing	Break material into its constituent parts and determine how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose compare, organize, cite differences, deconstruct	break down or examine the information	Higher
Evaluating	Make judgments based on criteria and standards check, critique, judge hypotheses, conclude, explain	judge or decide according to a set of criteria	Higher
Creating	Put elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganize elements into a new pattern or structure	design, construct, plan, produce	Higher