A Student Learning Outcome (SLO) is as individual as a course. There is no 100% format or style that can encapsulate all course SLOs, but there are some steps that will help you write an SLO that truely matches your course or department.
Writing a Student Learning Outcome in five steps:
1: Take a moment and think about a fundamental attitude, knowledge, skill or ability that your student will hopefully internalize by the end of your course or department experience. Describe what your student will be ABLE TO DO as a result of taking your course or exposure to the services in your department and actually synthesizing the information. What does it look like when a student “gets” it?
2: Use action verbs to describe this outcome--be clear about exactly what they will be able to do and how they will do it. Do NOT use phrases like “Student will know . . . “
3: SLOs need to be able to be assessed—directly or indirectly, qualitatively or quantitatively—someway, somehow. Can you do that for your SLO idea? How? consider thie assessment method can help formulate the SLO itself.
4: Whenever possible use Bloom’s taxonomy for of higher level learning verbs and concepts.
5. It is not written in teacher-speak; it is accessible and understandable for the most part by students.