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Tips for Writing Objectives
Available: http://www.okbu.edu/academics/natsci/ed/398/objectives.htm
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What are instructional objectives? • Instructional objectives are specific, measurable, short-term, observable student behaviors. • An objective is a description of a performance you want learners to be able to exhibit before you consider them competent. (Note from: http://www.uams.edu/oed/teaching/objectives.htm) • An objective describes an intended result of instruction, rather than the process of instruction itself. (Note from: http://www.uams.edu/oed/teaching/objectives.htm)
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Why have objectives? (Available: http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/aap/aap-car/faculty-development/teaching-skills/writing_objectives.htm) ◆ To provide direction to instruction. ◆ To provide guidelines for assessment. ◆ To convey instructional intent to others.
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Types of objectives • Cognitive: understandings, awarenesses, insights (e.g., "List and explain..."). This includes information recall, conceptual understanding, and problem-solving. • Psychomotor: special skills (e.g., "dissect a frog so that the following organs are clearly displayed..."; "take a replicable blood pressure reading by appropriately using a sphygmomanometer"). • Affective: attitudes, appreciations, relationships.
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Tips for writing objectives • How specific and detailed should objectives be? It depends on what they are used for! Objectives for sequencing a unit plan will be more general than for specifying a lesson plan. • Don't make writing objectives tedious, trivial, time-consuming, or mechanical. Keep them simple, unambiguous, and clearly focused as a guide to learning. • The purpose of objectives is not to restrict spontaneity or constrain the vision of education in the discipline; but to ensure that learning is focused clearly enough that both students and teacher know what is going on. • Express them in terms
Available: http://www.okbu.edu/academics/natsci/ed/398/objectives.htm
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What are instructional objectives? • Instructional objectives are specific, measurable, short-term, observable student behaviors. • An objective is a description of a performance you want learners to be able to exhibit before you consider them competent. (Note from: http://www.uams.edu/oed/teaching/objectives.htm) • An objective describes an intended result of instruction, rather than the process of instruction itself. (Note from: http://www.uams.edu/oed/teaching/objectives.htm)
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Why have objectives? (Available: http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/aap/aap-car/faculty-development/teaching-skills/writing_objectives.htm) ◆ To provide direction to instruction. ◆ To provide guidelines for assessment. ◆ To convey instructional intent to others.
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Types of objectives • Cognitive: understandings, awarenesses, insights (e.g., "List and explain..."). This includes information recall, conceptual understanding, and problem-solving. • Psychomotor: special skills (e.g., "dissect a frog so that the following organs are clearly displayed..."; "take a replicable blood pressure reading by appropriately using a sphygmomanometer"). • Affective: attitudes, appreciations, relationships.
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Tips for writing objectives • How specific and detailed should objectives be? It depends on what they are used for! Objectives for sequencing a unit plan will be more general than for specifying a lesson plan. • Don't make writing objectives tedious, trivial, time-consuming, or mechanical. Keep them simple, unambiguous, and clearly focused as a guide to learning. • The purpose of objectives is not to restrict spontaneity or constrain the vision of education in the discipline; but to ensure that learning is focused clearly enough that both students and teacher know what is going on. • Express them in terms