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Table 8.2 for a description of the outcomesseeFigure 8.9: Mapping of ENG260 topics to Engineers Australia graduate outcomessemester. However, the feedback loop ensures adaptation is facilitated for closer alignmentin the next offering of the unit.The map also highlighted any discrepancies: that an element is declared as a learning outcome,delivered as a learning objective, learned as either a new skills or an enhancement ofan existing skill, and summatively assessed.Elton (2000) suggests this mapping process assists in identifying where teachers’ theory inaction differs from their espoused theory through an evaluation of what is designed (methodsor assessment for objectives) and what is practiced. The existence of an exam indicated a misalignmentdid exist in ENG301, but the decision to retain this assessment was a pragmaticone – the School-based Teaching and Learning Committee expressed a reservation in havingno exams in any of the SE Design Studios, and it was a useful benchmarking to be able toevaluate succeeding student cohort performance in exams. Of course, this is only true if themapping can show the exam did not seek to measure how much low level information thestudent can reproduce. The raw exam mark average for the 2003 cohort was at the highend of the range established by previous cohorts. Therefore, while this assessment was notdetrimental to students undertaking a PBL unit, neither did it advantage them (which couldbe considered a negative effect).346