Faculty Center Electronic Workbook

Course Design: Meeting Objectives Matrix

Break down your course into “sections” or “modules” that seem like natural divisions in your content. You do not need exactly eight of these:

#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8

Place one-word reminders of these sections into the shaded boxes along the left side of the chart below.

The top row of shaded boxes represents the Course Objectives you developed in earlier worksheets; place one-word reminders of each objective into these boxes.

 

                 
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2                
3                
4                
5                
6                
7                
8                

Place checkmarks in the white boxes whenever a section of your course meets one of the Course Objectives. In this fashion, you can judge whether all the objectives are being met equally.

Are there some sections of the course which aren’t doing much to meet objectives? If so, do they still belong? Use this tool to bring balance to your course, and to make sure you are meeting your objectives.

A healthy matrix will have some checkmarks in every row, and some in every column, but will not be completely filled in. Over-reliance can be as large a problem as under-representation.