After overseeing the course and content services groups for several years at eCollege, I took over the role of designing and managing Academic LMS tools, including Learning Outcomes Manager (LOM). I applied my years as an instruction designer to create an end-to-end cloud-based solution for evaluating student performance based on the mastery of learning outcomes. The product provided the ability to create learning outcome statements, the alignment, and arrangement into a desired hierarchy appropriate for the school or university. Outcome statements are aligned to individual course locations (assignments) and data are recorded in a centralized location, providing the ability to see enterprise-wide performance per student, across all courses, classrooms, faculty, and departments. Several major for-profit and non-profit universities and schools use Pearson’s LOM and enterprise reporting tools.

Pictured here, is a gradebook homework assignment aligned to several outcomes. The individual outcomes are dynamically combined into a single grading rubric for the assignment, reducing the instructors’ number of clicks and overall time-spent grading.

Shown here, is an outcome performance summary screen. An instructor can gaze horizontally to see how each student is performing by outcome, or gaze vertically to see how each outcome is performing across all students. The example shows one outcome to be clearly under-performing. Even the high-performing student at the bottom of the roster tanked on that assignment.  This indicates more classroom time needs to be spent covering skills related to that outcome.

Here is a screen showing score details for a single learning outcome. It provides the mean, median and mode scores along with a record of where the outcome is aligned in the course and whether all activity is complete. The bottom of the screen shows a class distribution, indicating which score was selected in the rubric for each student.