• Module Design & Enhancement
• Best practice in Writing Learning Outcomes - 6 Golden Rules
• Aligning your Learning Outcomes, Teaching and Assessment
• Assessment of your Module
• UCD Student Feedback on Modules Survey
• Student FAQs - Feedback on Modules Survey
• Gathering Feedback on your Module
• Guide to Module Enhancement in UCD
• Module Enhancement & the Academic Cycle

Aligning your Learning Outcomes, Teaching and Assessment

Constructive alignment is the most fundamental principle of design in the outcomes-based curriculum that is used at UCD.

1. It is concerned with ensuring:
   Coherence between learning outcomes, assessment and teaching, and…
2. that this coherence (alignment) encourages students to take responsibility for their own learning and become what Ron Barnett called “Critical Persons”. (Higher Education a Critical Business, Open University Press / SRHE 1997.)

There are many excellent introductions to the theory and practice of constructive alignment on the web.

Four of the best are:

1. Using Biggs’ Model of Constructive Alignment in Curriculum Design
2. Constructive Alignment - and why it is important to the learning process – from the Engineering Subject Centre of the UK’s Higher Education Academy.
3. An Introduction to Constructive Alignment  - Mike Osborne’s well written introduction on the Scottish Higher Education web-site.
4. Aligning the Curriculum to Promote Good Learning  – a paper from John Biggs, who first coined the term “constructive alignment”.