Constructive Alignment and Its Steps

The meaning of Constructive:

  • Constructivist theory that learners using their own activity to construct their knowledge as interpreted through their own existing schemata

The definition of Alignment:

  • Principle in curriculum theory that assessment tasks should be aligned to what it is intended to be learned, as in criterion referenced assessment

Steps on Constructive Alignment:

  1. Program educational objectives (PEO)
  2. Program learning outcomes (PLO)
  3. Graduate attributes (GA)/ Graduate skills (GS)
  4. Course learning outcomes (CLO)
  5. Topic/ Unit learning outcomes (ULO)

* Adapted from BC4DCP course by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adibah

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