Dr Simon Paul Atkinson (PFHEA)
Enhancing Institutional Outcomes
See Courses “Why do I need to worry about manual skills? I teach history/French/maths…”. My answer is simple. What tools are used in the pursuit of your discipline? Is there not a degree of increasing proficiency in the deployment of these tools expected of students they progress through their studies? Psychomotor skills can be defined as those …
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[See Courses for Educational Taxonomies] Recently I have been advising colleagues on how they should write Intended Learning Outcomes across all five educational domains (cognitive, knowledge, affective, psychomotor and interpersonal) and conform to the QAA guidance (UK). This guidance (widely adopted across UK higher education a sector) breaks ILOs into: Knowledge and Understanding Intellectual Skills …
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