Characteristics of Good Learning Outcomes

1. Good Learning outcomes are centered on the students/learner.

- This is the reason why learning outcomes are referred to as student learning
outcomes. Good learning outcomes are learner centered.

2. Good learning outcomes are based on and aligned with the institutional, program and
course outcomes.
- It is in aligning learning outcomes with instructional outcomes that educational
institutions realize their intended institutional outcomes.

3. Good learning outcomes are based on and aligned with local, national and
international trends and issues.
- From the social reconstructionist point of view, schools are not ivory towers. They
are expected to help address social problems and so for relevance.

4. Good learning outcomes are known and are very well understood by both students
and faculty.
- The learning outcomes are no secret for the teacher only.

5. Good learning outcomes include a spectrum of thinking skills from simple

remembering to creating or from the lowest and simplest cognitive, unistructural
process to cognitive in Bloom’s and Anderson’s revised taxonomy of objectives.

SOURCES OF SLO
1. Mission Statement
2. Policies on Competencies and Standards
3. Expected Competencies
4. Thrusts and development goals of the Philippines
5. International trends and developments
6. Basic general education competencies