AH109

CRITICAL AND ANALYTICAL READING

1. Why CMU has established course-level learning outcomes?

ü    From academic principles, students will perform better and learn more effectively when they have developed their understanding of their expected learning outcomes of the course they are to attend. The outcome-based course syllabus will not only inform students of learning topics, but also of new knowledge and ability to perform their tasks as a result of their course and activities to be completed in the class and outside class. With outcome-based course syllabus, students will be able to achieve a deeper level of learning, understanding and cognition,

ü    As expected in the outcome-based course syllabus, students will develop better understanding of what they expect to learn from the course and they will gain better understanding of the entire curriculum of the program,

ü    Course-level learning outcomes can aid instructors in designing a course by helping them to plan course contents in a result-oriented manner, appropriate assessments, and more participatory strategies of teaching and learning activities,

ü Course-level learning outcomes help students understand their own learning and build metacognitive skills. Students can also better articulate what they’ve learned to parents, employers and others.

2. What is the difference between student learning outcomes and the goal or objectives of a program or a course?

The difference between student learning outcomes and goals at course or program level is characterized by their broadness and specification or by measurability and non-measurability or by deliverability or non-deliverability. Program or course goals reflect broader and non-specific categories of learning and are not measurable and deliverable. Students’ achievement at the program goals is nearly impossible to assess. In order to assess the achievement of student learning, the program goal must be broken down into smaller parts or more measurable parts or more deliverable parts. The broken parts are student learning outcomes. So learning outcomes will be used by faculty and CMU academic team as an essential tool to gather evidence of learning achievement of students and performance of faculty.

3. What is student learning outcome?

Students learning outcomes are classified into four levels or categories namely 1) knowledge, 2) skills, 3) attitudes or values, and 4) behaviors. Student learning outcomes describe what students should know, be able to do, and value by the end of their educational courses. Learning outcomes are clearly stated and presented in detailed course syllabus of every subject at CMU. At CMU, student learning outcomes are identified and defined as below: 

ü  At knowledge level, students are expected to develop new knowledge and to grasp fundamental cognitive contents, core concepts or questions, basic principles of inquiry, a broad history, and/or varied disciplinary techniques, 

ü  At skills level, students are expected to be equipped with skills to be applied in their future workplace and life and this will focus on capacity for applying basic knowledge, analyzing and synthesizing information, assessing the values of information, communicating information effectively, and ensuring constructive social collaboration,

ü  At attitudes and values level, students are expected to shape their attitudes and values to be applied in workplace and life and guided towards encompassing affective states, personal, professional and social values, and ethical principles,

ü  At behavioral level, students are critically expected to change their behaviors in response to employment and social needs. Behavioral outcomes reflect a manifestation of knowledge, skills, and attitudes as evidenced by performance.

4. Course Description and Objectives

This 45-hour course (3 credits) is friendly designed to facilitate learners to have personal, academic and professional success, sharpen up personal image, impress everyone in workplace, achieve career promotion, and think beyond themselves. By having attended this course, students will have become progressive employees, positive thinkers and productive citizens of the nation.

5. Expected learning outcomes:

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

•           define, explain, compare, identify and analyze their personal image,

•           plan their daily activities and change their thinking, attitudes and habits in order to promote their personal image, 

•           choose, list, translate, explain, identify, utilize, simplify, contrast, assess and discuss at least 100 key words of English from the text.

•          name, interpret, make use of, discuss, criticize and modify the concepts of good actions that build good personal image and bad actions that destroy good personal image and distinguish between good and bad actions in building and destroying personal image.

AH109 -- ORIENTATION SLIDE

AH109 -- COURSE SYLLABUS

AH109 -- READING MATERIAL -- TEXTBOOK