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Alignment Chart w8 - Hacking Your College Textbook Lockman
Alignment Chart w8 - Hacking Your College Textbook Lockman
Learning Problem: Students at Kishwaukee College (a community college) often demonstrate a lack of
appropriate reading strategies to apply to their assigned textbook readings. Preliminary research suggests that
an instructional intervention may help them acquire the necessary skills to improve their reading
comprehension and retention.
Proposed Solution & Delivery Method: The proposed solution is to offer an asynchronous online tutorial.
This tutorial may be deployed in college success coursessuch as college orientation and study skillsas
well as in reading-intensive subject courses in disciplines such as psychology and history.
Terminal Objective #1: Learners will SURVEY content from a textbook chapter.
Assessment
Enabling Objectives
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
Connect Activity
Idea
Given descriptions of key
structural features in a
textbook chapter (table of
contents, introduction,
conclusion, review
questions), learners will
MATCH (answer pickmultiple questions)
these features to the
types of information that
they typically include.
Pick-multiple
questions;
composition
question
Sequencetype
questions
(drag and
drop);
composition
question
Presentation
(animated slide
show): Show how
textbook chapter
headings outline
the topic
hierarchies within
the chapter.
Terminal Objective #2: Learners will FORMULATE open-ended analytical questions based on chapter
headings.
Assessmen
Enabling Objectives
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
Connect Activity
t Idea
Given a list of questions and a
definition of an open-ended
question, learners will
DIFFERENTIATE (choose from a
list) between open-ended and
closed-ended questions.
Pick-one
questions
(choose
from a list)
Physical
demonstration
(video): Instructor
shows the difference
between closed and
open-ended
questions and gives
examples of each.
Practice-type: Given
several different
examples of
questions, learners
will choose from a
list indicating whether
each one is open- or
closed-ended.
Pick-one
questions
(choose
from a list);
composition
question
Pick-one
questions
(choose
from a list);
composition
question
excerpts.