Editing Mental moves (section)

==Mental Moves and SLOs==
When writing a curriculum, after establishing 4-8 overarching program goals, next, for each program goal we identify SLOs (student learning outcomes): What students need to think and DO to accomplish the goal. To spell out the SLOs, it's useful to focus on where students get stuck in reaching this goal--what are the bottlenecks that make learning this goal a challenge? The mental moves uncovered in answering this question make for better, more specific SLOs. Mental moves = SLOs. 

*Program goals: Broad statements of the knowledge skills, attitudes, and values expected of students upon graduating from a degree program
*Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs): A specification of the mental moves, especially the difficult ones, of what students will think or DO (may include attitudes) to reach a program or course goal.
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