Aligning outcomes with learning activities and examinations : are students more motivated to learn?

• This pedagogical project is a series of revisions within the course Contextual Factors; the purpose of which is to improve the quality of assessment methods and to promote student learning in a more efficient way. Contextual Factors is a mandatory fifth term course in the occupational therapy program at Umeå University. In this course, students learn to analyze contexts surrounding clients as well as practice contexts, and how these contexts hinder or facilitate activity and participation. Students also learn to motivate the need for and contributions of occupational therapy in various practice areas. The revisions involved intentionally aligning the examinations and learning activities with the expected learning outcomes based on Biggs' (1996) concept of constructive alignment.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

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