A design for teaching in which the learning outcomes the students are intended to achieve, rather than the topics to be taught, steer teaching and assessment. It requires teachers to clarify how they want their students to behave after having been taught, and to assess students is in terms of how well those outcomes have been achieved. Constructive alignment focuses also on the learning processes the students need to adopt in order best to achieve those outcomes.
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(2012). Outcomes-Based Education. In: Seel, N.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_2311
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