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Fink's Integrated Course Design framework for aligning learning goals, teaching activities, and feedback and assessment

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Description

The study's organizing framework is Fink's (2013) Integrated Course Design, which "revolves around three primary components: Learning Goals, Teaching and Learning Activities, and Feedback and Assessment". The framework emphasizes creating significant learning experiences beyond simple content delivery, and holds that these three elements must be integrated and support each other; Fink warns that a course lacking this connection is a "broken course" that cannot work effectively because it is not integrated. The authors use it to structure their analysis of how dispositions are integrated across course design components.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • The three components must be integrated and aligned with each other and with the desired outcomes for the course to work effectively

Constraints

  • The article applies the framework to higher education course design and to dispositions as learning goals

Target Learners

  • higher education students

Learning Goals

  • dispositions such as attitudes, beliefs, and values alongside knowledge and skills

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Jafar Tavakoli, Marisa Exter, Ankita Kotangale. (2025). Integrating dispositions in instructional design: an exploratory study in higher education. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-025-09762-3
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title Fink's Integrated Course Design framework for aligning learning goals, teaching activities, and feedback and assessment
description The study's organizing framework is Fink's (2013) Integrated Course Design, which "revolves around three primary components: Learning Goals, Teaching and Learning Activities, and Feedback and Assessment".
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