audit learning design integrity

The problem

Learning designs often suffer from hidden inconsistencies where assessments fail to measure stated outcomes, or activities don't actually prepare students for the final exam. These "leaky" curricula waste learner time and undermine institutional credibility through invalid assessment data.

What it does

• Maps relationships between learning outcomes, content, activities, assessments, and rubrics to find gaps.
• Identifies orphan outcomes that aren't assessed and assessment tasks that aren't supported by instructional content.
• Calculates the impact of revising a single artifact on the rest of the curriculum ecosystem.
• Categorizes integrity failures by severity and confidence levels based on supplied evidence.
• Recommends the smallest possible intervention to fix misalignments without redesigning unaffected materials.

Why this beats prompting it yourself

Generic prompts often focus on surface-level "action verb" matching or mechanical Bloom's Taxonomy application. This skill treats learning design as a relational database, tracing performance evidence and prerequisite logic to find substantive defects that basic keyword audits miss.

Use cases

• QAing a new course module before it goes live to ensure assessment validity.
• Auditing an existing curriculum map to find redundant activities or unassessed outcomes.
• Evaluating the downstream impact of changing a high-stakes assessment task.
• Reviewing rubric criteria against assessment instructions to ensure fair grading.

Known limitations

Requires at least two connected components to function. It cannot provide psychometric or accreditation validity claims beyond the provided evidence.