Constructive alignment has emerged as a powerful curriculum design idea, but little is known of the extent to which the effectiveness of this idea is a function of qualitative variation. This article ...

Constructive alignment is the phrase coined by John Biggs in 1999 to describe an approach to curriculum design which is focused on closely aligning teaching and assessment to intended learning ...

"Constructive alignment" represents a marriage of the two thrusts, constructivism being used as a framework to guide decision-making at all stages in instructional design: in deriving curriculum ...

Teaching fulfils the criteria of constructive alignment (PDF, 151 KB) if learning objectives are competence-oriented and communicated in advance; performance assessments measure students' achievement ...