PURPOSE : The primary purpose of Goal Ranking and Matching is to assess the “degree of fit” (1) between students’ personal learning goals and teachers’ Course-specific instructional goals and (2) between teachers’ and students’ rankings of the relative importance and difficulty of the goals. This CAT also enables teacher or create shared class goals/ Faculty can use the information this technique provides to increase student motivation by helping students make connections between their personal goals and course goals, and-where appropriate-by incorporating student goals into the syllabus. Finally, this technique helps students learn to identify and clarify their own learning goals-an important lifelong learning skill.