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Learning outcome

Meaning in education & teaching, with examples

nounCore term

In education & teaching, learning outcome means: A statement of the knowledge, skills or attitudes that students should be able to show at the end of a course, unit or program.

In Turkish: öğrenme çıktısı, kazanım

How it is used

Found in curriculum documents, course descriptions and accreditation reports. Programs define, achieve or assess learning outcomes, which usually begin with an action verb such as identify, explain or design.

Example sentences

  1. Each unit lists three or four learning outcomes at the beginning.

  2. The exam questions should be linked directly to the course learning outcomes.

Common collocations

  • intended learning outcomes
  • achieve learning outcomes
  • assess learning outcomes
  • course learning outcomes
  • learning objectiveA short statement of what students should know or be able to do by the end of a lesson or unit, written so that the teacher can check whether it was achieved.
  • curriculumThe whole set of subjects, content and skills that students are expected to learn at a school or level, including how the learning is organized and assessed.
  • syllabusA document that lists the topics, materials, assignments and assessment of one course, often with a week-by-week schedule.
  • Bloom's taxonomyA framework that sorts thinking skills into levels, from remembering and understanding up to analyzing, evaluating and creating, used to write objectives and questions.

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