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We outline best practices and preliminary results from our experience and provide ways to adapt our experience to other domains so instructors and students may fully benefit from such a project.  \nIntroduction  \nW ebb (1997) defines curricular alignment as “the  \ndegree to which expectations [i.e., standards] and assessments are in agreement and serve in conjunction with one another to guide the system toward students learning what they are expected to know and do.”Curricular alignment can be used as a way to see what the pedagogical material asks from the students, if it fits the requirements, and also to see to what extent what has been taught in class is assessed in the evaluations (Martone & Sireci, 2009) . The fact that professional or academic freedom is often offered to teachers and lecturers in higher  \neducation does not take away from the need to follow these guiding pedagogical principles and to offer optimal learning opportunities to students through the evaluations for equity purposes (Martone & Sireci, 2009) .  \nIn this paper, we provide a method, based on previous research and our own experience, to implement a curricular alignment effort in higher education when little or no precedent or guidelines are present. This method can be used both by individual professors as a professional development tool, or by a department that wishes to undertake discussions among their professors on curriculum and coherence, or bring objective evidence to the table for such ongoing discussions (Bateman, Taylor,  \nJanik, & Logan, 2009; Hammerness, 2006) It can also be used by states to measure alignment of standardized tests with what is being taught (Beach, 2011; Pellegrino, 2006; Porter, McMaken, Hwang, & Yang, 2011) .  \nFollowing a rigorous method to analyze the content of pedagogical material and evaluations will bring an evidence-based and objective view to higher education teachers and lecturers and provide them with a precious tool to improve students’ learning (Biggs, 1996; Cohen, 1987; Squires, 2009) . In our own experience, we found that conducting curricular alignment in a professional development fashion brought forward many interesting improvement avenues and eased the resistance to change that can be encountered when curricular alignment is mandatory and intends to impose a homogenous structure.  \nMethod  \nDepartmental settings  \nIn order to assess new departmental policies, a first curricular alignment project was introduced in 2012 at Vanier College in Montréal. Vanier is an Anglophone Collèged’enseignement général et professionnel (CÉGEP), the first higher education level in Quebec where all students have to go through two mandatory FSL courses of various difficulties depending on their baseline level. Our aim was to conduct a curriculum alignment analysis of seven different level 3 courses (602- 102-MQ, intermediate) taught by six instructors. The participation of the teachers was never mandatory and that we offered them this opportunity as a pilot project. We found that it is important, when curricular alignment is used as a professional development tool, not to coerce teachers in the process so that they do not feel that their competence is questioned or threatened. Such attitude allows all the participants to approach the project with an open mind and to see the results as providing them with a fair mirror of their course and an otherwise impossible mean of comparison with colleagues.  \nResearch team  \nOur team included one project coordinator (the main author), two teachers who acted as experts","cbCaifAUUgXyiNX0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifAUUgXyiNX0","pdf",143048,"English","# Introduction\n## Curricular alignment definition and rationale\n## Purpose and method overview\n# Method\n## Departmental settings\n## Research team\n## Choice of the taxonomies","[{\"question\":\"What is curricular alignment, and why is it important in higher education?\",\"answer\":\"Curricular alignment is defined as the degree to which expectations (standards) and assessments agree and work together to guide what students are expected to learn and do. 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