Accounting Definition
The Accounting
An “accounting” can be grasped by this graphic:
To translate into words, the accounting:
- documents the binding between atomic student capabilities ("Learning Goals") and macro-objects ("Lessons") or nth-order macro-objects (e.g. "Unit", "Modules", or "Products"), and
- calculates the chain of dependencies for any given capability that includes its recursive dependencies back to first principles (i.e. transitive dependencies)
In a textual format, this graphical accounting above might be rendered as:
Textual description of an accounting
- "Italian Cooking" would contain "Pasta Foundations" and "Sauce Foundations"
- "Pasta Foundations" would itself contain:
- "How to boil water"
- "How to drain water"
- "How to assess pasta readiness"
- "Sauce Foundations"
- etc.
- "Pasta Foundations" would itself contain:
In more technical language, the accounting is the directed graph of the “Learning Goals” based on a recursive descent from the highest containing macro-object.
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