Group 5

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Discuss:

What are good general learning outcomes in science/computation courses?
After taking a course, a student should be able to ...
- Compute accurately, program quantitatively
- Clean up real-world data, make a visualization out of it.
- Compute some descriptive statistics, make a written report
- Use conceptual computer tools to save time and proceed to the next level problems
- Communicate quantitative results, explain them to an audience of non-experts. Clearly presents a solution that is consistent with the original problem statement. If appropriate, a useful visual aid/graphic is included.
What are examples of learning outcomes in a course you teach?
- Explain how to find the equation of a line given the graph of the line.
- Determine whether a problem is well-conditioned or not; rewrite an algorithm that is unstable to solve a well-conditioned problem.
- Explore different scenarios/initial conditions of a differential equation to see which one produces a solution that fits the specific problem.