Curriculum Mapping

Owned by Liam Mason (Unlicensed)
Oct 01, 2021
2 min read

  • Accurate depiction of content and assessment

  • Respond to regulatory demands

  • Anticipate growth programs

  • Reduce curricular (course) drift

  • Orient new faculty

  • Orient students

  • Inform external audiences

  • Mid 1990s

  • Part of the methodology

  • Agreement without evidence

    • Selection Bias

  • Ignoring undesirable topics

    • Superiority Bias

  • Focusing on single traits of curriculum

    • Anchoring Effect

  • There’s got to be a better way!?!?

  • Standards and Outcomes (course, program, school, institution, state, federal, professional)

  • Syllabi

  • Sheets

    • Scratch

    • Waterfall

  • Sweat

  • Discussion

  • Copy and paste all syllabi and document outcome lists

  • Assign labeling convention

  • Plan to edit outcome text later

  • Laborious process

  • Start with program level outcomes

  • Compare verbs and nouns for ideal alignment

  • Determine hierarchy of aligning outcomes (i.e., categories, subcategories, criteria, etc.)

  • Transpose label from Scratch

  • Repeat for any secondary alignments (a.k.a, “splits”)