Documentation talk:Building Cohesion Between Goals and Assessment/Introduction

The purpose of teaching is to support learning. Dee Fink suggests that "all decisions relating to a given course (or other learning experience) — from the selection of reading materials to the assessment process — should be judged by their contribution to this end." When a course is well designed, it is easy to see a relatively cohesive plan which is intended to guide the learners toward both some predefined goals and some incidental learning which may be discovered upon personal reflection.