Constructive alignment of learning outcomes with learning activity and assessment
College ESLG effectively performs constructive alignment of learning outcomes with teaching and learning activities and assessment methods.
The constructive alignment is regulated by the Guidelines for Constructive Alignment of Learning Outcomes with Learning Activities and Student Assessment of College ESLG.
The present Guide aims at explaining the principle of Constructive Alignment. Constructive alignment refers to an approach to instructional design that integrates Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs), (b) Teaching and Learning Activities (TLAs), and (c) Assessment methods (Ass.). As shown in Figure below the constructive alignment demands optimal coherence between these three elements in a course or curriculum. Moreover, constructive alignment underpins and assures the quality of an educational programme.
Figure 1: Constructive alignment
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“[Constructive alignment] makes quite explicit the standards needed if the intended learning outcomes are to be achieved and maintained” (Biggs & Tang, 2015, p. 14).
