Create strong learning outcomes and assessments

Verbs congruent with the PD activity educational level

Example Learning Outcome

Example Assessment Method

Distance Learning—Independent (asynchronous): post-test, online drag-and-drop activity, video submissions

Live or Distance Learning—Interactive (synchronous): discussion, demonstration, competency assessment

Introductory: Consider verbs from the remember and/or understand stages of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Learners recall facts without necessarily having a high level of understanding.

Distance Learning—Independent (asynchronous):

Identify, choose, list, match, define, recall, recognize

Live or Distance Learning—Interactive (synchronous):

Describe, discuss, explain, summarize, state, restate, paraphrase, repeat

Recognize 3 evidence-based interventions that are effective in the treatment of xyz.

Learner is provided a written list of interventions. Learner demonstrates the ability to recognize evidence-based interventions by placing a checkmark by them.

Intermediate: Consider using verbs from the apply and analyze stages of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Learners use information in new ways and find inter-relationships between ideas.

Distance Learning—Independent (asynchronous):

Order, organize, predict, relate, schedule, solve, arrange, categorize, classify, differentiate

Live or Distance Learning—Interactive (synchronous):

Demonstrate, operate, practice, debate, experiment, inspect, investigate

Relate evidence-based interventions to various diagnosis and treatment settings.

In a drag-and-drop activity, the learner is provided 3 evidence-based interventions, 3 rehabilitation settings, and 3 diagnoses. Learner relates the appropriate intervention with the most relevant and applicable diagnosis and setting by placing them together into groups.

Advanced: Consider verbs from the evaluate or create stages of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Learners make judgements, put concepts together to create a new whole, and/or reorganize information to create new patterns or structures.

Distance Learning—Independent (asynchronous):

Arrange, categorize, modify, discriminate, interpret, justify, plan, reorganize, revise, rewrite, score, predict, measure, rate

Live or Distance Learning—Interactive (synchronous):

Appraise, invent, conclude, criticize, convince, defend, create, design, develop, formulate

Categorize the levels of evidence for 2 evidence-based interventions.

In a drag-and-drop activity the learner is provided 2 critical appraisals for empirical research and categorizes the research as Level I-V evidence.