How to Write and Use Instructional Objectives

This leading book is a concise and practical resource to writing and using objectives. This adaptable guide tells and shows how to state instructional objectives as intended learning outcomes, and how to use them in teaching and assessment. Expanded coverage in key areas, along with thorough updates, makes it the essential how-to-do-it book regarding instructional objectives. Describes and illustrates how to state instructional objectives in performance terms that clearly define desired learning outcomes (intellectual, affective, and performance skills) and expected student performance. Demonstrates how to use them in planning, teaching, learning, and assessment.

This is the leading text in the field, written by one of the top names in the discipline. A very concise and practical resource (text material is less than 100 pages), it is a complete guide for helping future teachers master the task of creating and using instructional objectives in teaching. It describes--and illustrates with examples--procedures for writing objectives that clearly define desired learning outcomes and expected student performance, and directly contribute to enhanced classroom instruction. The "hands-on" focus of the coverage offers a sound basis for teaching, testing, and evaluating learning...plus guidelines that can be implemented for all types of learning outcomes at all levels of instruction.