Lesson Objectives & Outcomes Review

[tkphd]

We've been busy developing, refining, and revising material in our lessons. Let's make a concerted effort to evaluate the stated Lesson Objectives, Outcomes, and Skills of each lesson and their constituent episodes to make sure:

1. The Episodes reflect the stated skills for the lesson ("By the end of this workshop, students will know how to...")
2. The Questions and Objectives for each episode reflect the intended scope of the lesson.
3. The Key Points for each episode reflect the skills we want learners to take away.
4. The material presented in each episode is within the scope set by the Questions and Objectives. If not:
   • Propose updates to the Questions/Outcomes/Key Points
   • Propose removal of the material, or migration to another HPC Carpentry lesson
5. The exercises in each episode support the outcomes and key points.
   • Propose updates to the Questions/Outcomes/Key Points
   • Propose removal of the material, or migration to another HPC Carpentry lesson
6. Review the flow of episodes for compatibility from one to the next. Does the narrative structure make sense?

As we review the material, please keep The Carpentries' Curriculum Development Handbook in mind.

[tobyhodges]

Also relevant, with varying degrees of overlap on the Curriculum Development Handbook, are:

• https://carpentries.github.io/lesson-development-training/05-objectives.html
• some points in https://carpentries.github.io/lesson-development-training/15-explanation.html
• the "testimonial" (really it's a quote, but I haven't yet got around to changing the title) in https://carpentries.github.io/lesson-development-training/11-exercises.html

All of the above are a pretty rough draft, but I hope the key messages are coming across.

And Greg Wilson did a great job of summarising a lot of this, and subsequently framing it in terms of the benefits to project maintainability, in http://teachtogether.tech/en/index.html#s:process-objectives