Rating your curriculum in terms of meaningful learning

Rate your evolving curriculum unit in terms of the following attributes of meaningful learning. Use this scale:

0 - No inclusion of this attribute

1 - This attribute included just a little

2 - This attribute important to my unit

3 - This attribute absolutely central to my unit

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A. Intentionality: Uses clearly articulated learning goals to design learning tasks and the assessment of learning progress.

B. Content centrality: Aligns learning goals and tasks with the big ideas, essential questions, and methods of inquiry that are central to the discipline.

C. Authentic work: Constructs multifaceted learning tasks that represent the challenges, problems, and thinking skills required outside the classroom.

D. Active inquiry: Uses a disciplined inquiry process for learning that builds on students' own questions and develops habits of mind that foster high levels of thinking.

E. Construction of mental models: Embeds the articulation of cognitive models of content within the learning tasks.

F. Collaborative work: Learning tasks are designed so that students working together adds value to achieving learning outcomes.

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The highest possible score is 18. What did your unit score? What can you do to increase your unit's score?

Email your ratings and your response to the instructor.

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Atttibutes taken from:

Meaningful Learning Using Technology: What Educators Need to Know and Do; Elizabeth A. Ashburn and Robert E. Floden, Editors
Technology, Education--Connections (TEC) Series
Pub Date: April 2006, 240 pages. ISBN: 0807746843