Steps toward excellence: The power of learning objectives — from rtalbert.org by Robert Talbert
Making clear and measurable learning objectives for both the course and individual course modules.
Excerpt:
How to write a clear, measurable learning objective
Allow me to (re-)introduce you to Bloom’s Taxonomy:
Each of the six levels of the taxonomy corresponds to a category of cognitive tasks, and in most of these diagrams of the taxonomy you will find action verbs attached to each level. The key to writing a clear, measurable learning objective is to focus on two questions at both the macro and micro levels:
What is it that I want students to learn? And,
What action with a measurable outcome can a student perform that will allow me to decide whether they have learned it?
Then it’s a matter of expressing that action as a declarative statement anchored to a concrete action verb at the appropriate Bloom level.
Also see Robert’s second posting here, entitled:
- Steps toward excellence: Making sure you assess the right things
In this post, we’ll begin to see why crafting clear, measurable learning objectives is so important to building an excellent online learning environment, and it has to do with this idea of measuring things.