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The document outlines Kara Styron's goals for a course on researching and presenting information on American Indian groups in Texas. Her Big Hairy Audacious Goal is for students to design and present a virtual museum on the topic. She lists questions to help formulate significant learning goals in areas like foundational knowledge, application, integration, human dimensions, caring, and learning how to learn. The questions are aimed at determining what students should understand, what kinds of thinking and skills they need, how ideas connect, what they can learn about themselves and others, what values they may adopt, and how to become self-directed learners of the subject.

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Worksheet-2-Questions For Formulating Significant Learning Goals

The document outlines Kara Styron's goals for a course on researching and presenting information on American Indian groups in Texas. Her Big Hairy Audacious Goal is for students to design and present a virtual museum on the topic. She lists questions to help formulate significant learning goals in areas like foundational knowledge, application, integration, human dimensions, caring, and learning how to learn. The questions are aimed at determining what students should understand, what kinds of thinking and skills they need, how ideas connect, what they can learn about themselves and others, what values they may adopt, and how to become self-directed learners of the subject.

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Kara Styron

July 2021

Questions for Formulating Significant Learning Goals

A year (or more) after this course is over, I want and hope that students will have an
understanding of how to research and present information on topics and take ownership of
their own studies and research.

My Big Harry Audacious Goal (BHAG) for the course is: Students will report on the various
American Indian groups of Texas by designing and presenting a virtual museum.

Foundational Knowledge
 What key information (e.g., facts, terms, formulae, concepts, principles, relationships, etc.)
is/are important for students to understand and remember in the future?

 What key ideas (or perspectives) are important for students to understand in this course?

Application Goals
 What kinds of thinking are important for students to learn?
 Critical thinking, in which students analyze and evaluate
 Creative thinking, in which students imagine and create
 Practical thinking, in which students solve problems and make decisions
 What important skills do students need to gain?
 Do students need to learn how to manage complex projects?

Integration Goals
 What connections (similarities and interactions) should students recognize and make…:
 Among ideas within this course?
Worksheet questions adopted from: L. Dee Fink, (2003) Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated
Approach to Designing College Courses. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
 Among the information, ideas, and perspectives in this course and those in other
courses or areas?
 Among material in this course and the students' own personal, social, and/or
work life?

Human Dimensions Goals


 What could or should students learn about themselves?
 What could or should students learn about understanding others and/or interacting with
them?

Caring Goals
 What changes/values do you hope students will adopt?
Feelings?
Interests?
Values?

"Learning-How-to-Learn" Goals
 What would you like for students to learn about:
 how to be good students in a course like this?
 how to learn about this particular subject?
 how to become a self-directed learner of this subject, i.e., having a learning agenda
of what they need/want to learn, and a plan for learning it?

Worksheet questions adopted from: L. Dee Fink, (2003) Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated
Approach to Designing College Courses. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Worksheet questions adopted from: L. Dee Fink, (2003) Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated
Approach to Designing College Courses. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

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