Goal alignment to questions in banks – 3900.80

Goal alignment to questions in banks – 3900.80

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Impact: Instructors

Institutions want to align goals to course content. Goal alignment ensures that the curriculum is designed to meet specific learning outcomes.

Instructors can currently align goals to the following course items:

• Assignments
• Tests, including individual questions
• Discussions
• Rubrics criterion
• Files
• Web links
• Teaching tools with LTI connection
• Documents

Now, instructors can also align goals to questions within a question bank. Question-level goal alignment ensures that assessment items measure the desired learning outcomes. This helps to ensure the accuracy and effectiveness of evaluation and feedback practices.

Image 1: Instructor view of the “Align with goal’ menu option used to align a question to a goal

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