354 pages · 2023
A Guide to Curriculum Mapping
Creating a Collaborative, Transformative, and Learner-Centered Curriculum
By Jennifer M. Harrison · Vickie Rey Williams
- Published
- October 25, 2023
- Imprint
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN
- 9781003439837
Overview
About this book
A Guide to Curriculum Mapping synthesizes teaching, learning, and assessment research with an innovative, inclusive, and comprehensive approach to effective curriculum design that centers student learning and evidence-informed continuous improvement.
A Guide to Curriculum Mapping offers adaptable tools, resources, and templates that readers can customize to their own institutions and programs. The authors offer ways to document, synthesize, integrate, and visually represent how learning opportunities work together—whether within courses, across degree programs, or throughout an entire college or university. The authors have presented their integrated mapping approach to acclaim at conferences for close to a decade and have tested their use in programs large and small across the US, beyond systematically applying them at their home institution, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
This book enables educators—whether faculty, chairs, deans, administrators, educational developers, staff, or assessment leaders concerned with student learning and success—to think through the clarity, organization, and alignment of their programs for improving learning using learner-centered research.
Subjects
Education
Inside the book
Table of contents
Select a chapter to read its abstract.
Chapter 1Introduction
Pages: 20
Chapter 1: Introduction suggests how mapping can contribute to student learning and begins to explore the need, significance, and value of curriculum mapping in building common ground, collaboration, and deliberative dialogue.
Chapter 2Navigating Research-Based Best Practices with Curriculum Mapping
Pages: 34
In Chapter 2: Navigating Research-Based Best Practices With Curriculum Mapping, we show how curriculum mapping operationalizes an array of best practices. Our meta-analysis holistically aligns these practices to the book’s learning outcomes and the purposes for student-centered curriculum mapping and improvement.
Chapter 3Curriculum Mapping Fundamentals
Pages: 45
In Chapter 3: Curriculum Mapping Fundamentals, we define key terms and describe how to map a program and a course. We also highlight ways to work through faculty resistances to learning assessment and how curriculum mapping and deliberative dialogue can help. We discuss how you can use curriculum mapping from varying positions in an institution, sketch indicators that suggest readiness for mapping, and illustrate multiple mapping pathways.
Chapter 4Vertical Alignment
Pages: 14
Chapter 4: Vertical Alignment explores how to synthesize data from classroom-level direct measures, helping you negotiate the challenges of connecting and applying direct learning data. Curriculum mapping with vertical alignment across levels helps address this challenge. Curriculum mapping empowers colleges, programs, and faculty to connect learning opportunities and results to build an institution-wide view of student learning. Vertical alignment enables educators to extract student learning evidence from classroom assessments, aggregate it to each level, and analyze it through multiple lenses.
Chapter 5Horizontal Alignment
Pages: 28
In Chapter 5: Horizontal Alignment, we unpack how horizontal alignment works within and across programs and institutions, including integrating co-curricular and academic learning. We’ll explore how to horizontally align practices, pedagogies, and initiatives and connect learning evidence to the requirements of multiple accreditors to synthesize, streamline, and simplify teaching, learning, and assessment.
Chapter 6Using Curriculum Mapping to Close the Loop
Pages: 43
Chapter 6: Using Curriculum Mapping to Close the Loop examines how institutions can integrate student learning outcomes through curriculum mapping to gain capacity to aggregate, disaggregate, and reaggregate learning data to answer targeted questions about student learning, achievement gaps, and intervention effectiveness. Horizontal and vertical alignment affords opportunities to bridge authentic assessments and learning evidence to learning analytics to add depth to our understanding of student learning. Integrating direct and indirect evidence yields better understanding of student performance, adds nuance and equity to predictive analytics, and offers insights that can foster equity through enhanced capabilities to pinpoint achievement gaps. This chapter focuses on how we can synthesize results and close the loop (and use double-loop analysis) effectively. Additionally, we look at next steps in curriculum mapping, sketching a vision of how educators can use curriculum mapping to foster continuous improvement, incuding how to help students use curriculum maps.