Objectives:
Objective: The teacher will teach a lesson about the 5 food groups.
Correction: Given an unlabeled picture of the USDA MyPlate diagram and colored pencils, each student will label the five food groups by appropriate color and portion, with no less than 90% accuracy.
Explanation: The condition needed to be the specific tool(s) needed for students to perform the performance. The performance needed to be focused on what students would need to do, not what the teacher was going to do. The Criterion needed to be stated and with specificity.
Objective: After instruction on the French and Indian War, each student will write a report with 95% accuracy.
Correction: Utilizing notes taken during classroom lectures on the French and Indian War as well as the classroom textbook, each student will write a 1000 word report summarizing the unit using Microsoft Word with 95% accuracy.
Explanation: The condition needed to specify precisely what would be used and needed to accomplish the objective. The performance needed to be more clearly stated to convey how the report would be written.
Objective: Given a list of vocabulary words, each student will learn the meaning of 90% of their vocabulary words.
Correction: Given a list of vocabulary words and a dictionary to use for reference, students will write a short story in their composition books using each vocabulary word in context, with 90% accuracy.
Explanation: The condition needed to be amended in order to give a resource (dictionary) to learn the meaning of the vocabulary words. Additionally, performance needed to more clearly define what was to be accomplished to demonstrate that students learned the meaning of the vocabulary words.
Objective: Given a quiz, the student will list 8/10 action words.
Correction: Given a multiple choice quiz of four choices per question on a ten question quiz, students will identify the action verb present in the choices (a,b,c,d) with 80%