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Writing Objectives
The three groups of domains identified by educational
psychologist, Benjamin Bloom are commonly used to
group objectives and learning outcomes. These are:
2. COMPREHENSION
3. APPLICATION
4. ANALYSIS
5. SYNTHESIS
6. EVALUATION
DESCRIPTION OF LEVEL
EXAMPLE OF MEASURABLE
STUDENT OUTCOME
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PERCEPTION
SET
GUIDED RESPONSE
MECHANISM
COMPLEX OVERT
RESPONSE
ADAPTATION
ORGANIZATION
DESCRIPTION OF LEVEL
EXAMPLE OF MEASURABLE
STUDENT OUTCOME
Demonstrates a readiness to
Describe how you would go about taking
take action to perform the
the absorbance spectra of a sample of
task or objective
pigments?
Knows steps required to
Determine the density of a group of sample
complete the task or objective metals with regular and irregular shapes.
Performs task or objective in a
Using the procedure described below,
somewhat confident,
determine the quantity of copper in your
proficient, and habitual
unknown ore. Report its mean value and
manner
standard deviation.
Performs task or objective in a
Use titration to determine the Ka for an
confident, proficient, and
unknown weak acid.
habitual manner
You are performing titrations on a series of
unknown acids and find a variety of
Performs task or objective as
problems with the resulting curves, e.g.,
above, but can also modify
only 3.0 ml of base is required for one acid
actions to account for new or
while 75.0 ml is required in another. What
problematic situations
can you do to get valid data for all the
unknown acids?
Creates new tasks or
objectives incorporating
learned ones
RECEIVING
Demonstrates a willingness to
participate in the activity
RESPONDING
VALUING
ORGANIZATION
CHARACTERIZATION
BY A VALUE OR
VALUE COMPLEX
Blooms Taxonomy
Knowledge
Lower level
Comprehension Lower level
Application Intermittent level
Analysis Higher level
Synthesis Higher level
Evaluation higher level
Key verbs
To help you to write appropriate learning objectives for each domain we have provided a table with some key verbs you may like to consider using:
Cognitive
(knowledge)
Recognise, define,
Discuss, question, Replicate, re-create,
explain, report,
contribute, interpret,
demonstrate,
discuss, critique,
consider, debate,
perform, execute,
summarise, apply,
argue, challenge, show, solve, modify,
develop, review,
compare, contrast
master, manage
appraise, evaluate
Writing Objectives
LEVEL
LEVEL ATTRIBUTES
KEYWORDS
Have students
By the end of this
list, recite, define,
group up and
course, the student
Rote memorization,
name, match,
perform simple
1:
will be able to
KNOWLEDG
recognition, or
quote, recall,
experiments to the
recite Newtons
E
recall of facts.
identify, label,
class showing how
three laws of
recognize
one of the laws of
motion.
motion works.
Group students
into pairs and have
each pair think of
By the end of this
words that
describe, explain,
course, the student describe motion.
paraphrase,
Understanding
will be able to
After a few
2:
restate, give
COMPREHE
what the facts
explain Newtons minutes, ask pairs
original examples
NSION
mean.
three laws of
to volunteer some
of, summarize,
motion in his/her
of their
interpret, discuss
own words.
descriptions and
write these
descriptions on the
board.
After presenting
the kinetic energy
equation in class,
By the end of this
calculate, predict,
have the students
course, the student
Correct use of the
apply, solve,
pair off for just a
3:
will be able to
APPLICATIO
facts, rules, or
illustrate, use,
few minutes and
calculate the
N
ideas.
demonstrate,
practice using it so
kinetic energy of a
determine, model
that they feel
projectile.
comfortable with it
EXAMPLE
ASSESSMENT
Assign the
students to write a
simple essay that
explains what
Newtons laws of
motion mean in
his/her own words.
On a test, define a
projectile and ask
the students to
Calculate the
kinetic energy of
the projectile.
LEVEL
4: ANALYSIS
LEVEL
ATTRIBUTES
KEYWORDS
EXAMPLE
OBJECTIVE
EXAMPLE ACTIVITY
EXAMPLE
ASSESSMENT
Cognitive
(knowledge)
Written tests
including multiple
choice questions,
short essay
questions, best
answer questions,
essays