Updating course learning outcomes maps

• If you are planning only minor revisions, download and save onto disk/drive the respective course learning outcomes map for your course. Delete or add learning outcomes to the spreadsheet as necessary.

• For major revisions, or if your course has yet to be mapped, please start afresh using a blank template [Excel]. For each TD'09 outcome, list horizontally your course learning outcomes which map against it, one outcome per cell. Save onto disk/drive.

• As well as inserting each course outcome against each TD'09 outcome across the respective row, complete 'Column B' to indicate your view on whether each TD'09 outcome is covered by the corresponding course learning outcomes. Please indicate appropriate coverage with an 'X', and partial coverage with a 'P'.

• The mapping process should help towards making a rational decision, but ultimately it is pretty subjective whether you decided coverage is ‘appropriate’ or ‘partial’! When deciding, the issue is whether the course is doing what it can to meet the respective TD’09 outcome. It is not whether the course single-handedly makes the whole Imperial curriculum compliant with that outcome. For example, the Year 5 Obs & Gynae course has an extensive set of learning outcomes which map against the TD’09 outcome: “Explain normal human structure and functions.” Given this, an ‘X’ has been used on the map to indicate ‘appropriate coverage’, even though these course outcomes relate solely to the female reproductive system.

• Please also note that in determining whether coverage is partial or appropriate, consider both the content of the learning outcome and the level to which it needs to be applied (e.g. recognise, explain, discuss, apply, etc...)

• Once completed, please email the updated map to Chris Harris, Quality Assurance manager, who can then upload the new maps and update the amalgamated learning outcomes map centrally.

Updating the Assessment map

The Assessment map [Excel] has been developed through analysing previous years' examination questions and in-course assessments, as well as discussions in various Education Committees. However, if you know there have been changes to an assessment, please view the map, determine if it is affected, and liaise with Chris Harris if changes are required.

Dr Aaron Vallance
Academic Lead for the iMAP Project
May 2012

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