An instructional objective describes what a learner will be able to do after instruction. Objectives should be SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound. There are four components of an objective: the action verb, conditions, standard, and intended audience. Bloom's Taxonomy classifies educational objectives into three domains: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. Within the cognitive domain are six categories of increasing complexity: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.
Ambreen Aftab presents instructional objectives, their definition, and the importance of clearly stating learner achievements based on the works of Kibler and Mager.
Objectives should be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-bound. Components include action verb, conditions, standard, and intended audience.
Dr. Benjamin Bloom's contributions, including the classification of educational objectives and promoting higher-order thinking in educational instruction.
Bloom's taxonomy categorizes learning into cognitive (mental skills), affective (emotional growth), and psychomotor (physical skills) domains.
The cognitive domain has six levels: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation, detailing skills and actions associated with each.
The affective domain addresses emotional responses and values growth, categorized into Receiving, Responding, Valuing, Organizing, and Characterization.
Psychomotor domain focuses on physical skills and coordination, with major levels including Perception, Set, Guided Response, Mechanism, and Complex Overt Response.
Applying Bloom's Taxonomy aids in measuring student abilities, establishing desired outcomes, and aligning instruction with assessments.
Cites key literature on Bloom’s Taxonomy and provides online resources for additional information and inquiries.
Open floor for questions to clarify and engage further on presentation topics.
An instructional objectiveis a statement that
will describe what the learner will be able to do
after completing the instruction. (Kibler, Kegla,
Barker, Miles, 1974).
Robert Mager (1984), in his book Preparing
Instructional Objectives, describes an objective
as "a collection of words and/or pictures and
diagrams intended to let others know what you
intend for your students to achieve" (pg. 3).
3.
An easyway to remember the characteristics
of a good objective, is the acronym,
"SMART." It stands for
Specific
Measureable
Attainable
Realistic
Time bound
4.
There are fourcomponents of an objective:
1) the action verb
2) conditions
3) standard
4) the intended audience
5.
Dr. BenjaminBloom (February 21,1913-
September 13,1999)
American Educational Psychologist
Classification of Educational Objectives
Theory of mastery-learning
Research team under his supervision has
developed a taxonomy of Educational
Objectives in 1956
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Taxonomy simplymeans “Classification”
The purpose of Bloom’s Taxonomy is to
promote higher forms of thinking in
education such as analyzing and evaluating
concepts, processes, procedures, and
principles, rather than just remembering
facts (rote learning).
It is often used when designing instruction or
learning processes (instructional Design)
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Cognitive: mentalskills (knowledge) Head
Affective: growth in feelings or emotional
areas (attitude or self) Heart
Psychomotor: manual or physical skills (skills)
Hands
8.
Lorin Andersonand David Krathwohl (former
students) revisited the Cognitive Domain in
mid-nineties and made some changes in it.
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Bloom’s Taxonomy: The
CognitiveDomain
The cognitive domain involves knowledge and the
development of intellectual skills (Bloom, 1956).
There are six major categories of cognitive a process,
starting from the simplest to the most complex.
Knowledge Remembering
Comprehension Understanding
Application Applying
Analysis Analyzing
Synthesis Creating
Evaluation Evaluating
The affective domain(Krathwohl,Bloom, Masia, 1973)
includes the manner in which we deal with things
emotionally, such as feelings, values, appreciation,
enthusiasm, motivation and attitude
The five major categories are listed from the simplest
behavior to the most complex
Receiving
Responding
Valuing
Organizing
characterization
The psychomotor domain(Simpson, 1972) includes
physical movement, coordination, and use of the motor-
skill areas.
Psychomotor skills rage from manual tasks.
The major levels of Psychomotor Domain are
Perception (awareness through sensory cues)
Set
Guided Response
Mechanism (basic proficiency):
Complex Overt response (Expert)
Adaptation
Organization
Some of thereasons for employing Bloom’s
Taxonomy include
Accurately measuring of Students’ abilities
Establishes intended learning outcomes in
professor/student interactions
Helps faculty to design and implement
appropriate assessment tasks, measures, and
instruments.
Helps to ensure that instruction and
assessment are appropriately aligned with
the intended outcomes
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Bloom, B.S..(1956). Taxonomy of Education Objectives: Handbook I: Cognitive
Domain. New York: David McKay Company, Inc.
Krathwohl, D.R., Bloom, B.S. and Masia, B.B.(1964). Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives: Handbook II. The Affective Domain. New York: David McKay
Company, Inc.
Online Data is available on following sites
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08DefinitionOfInstructionalObjectives.pdf
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html
http://www.naacls.org/docs/announcement/writing-
objectives.pdf
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