INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES EDU555 Curriculum & Instruction Encik Muhamad Furkan Mat Salleh

Instructional Objectives To start teaching: teacher must be guided by instructional objective, followed by strategies and tools to accomplish the task, and then evaluate the outcomes

Instructional Objectives Objectives: desired outcomes of learning Purpose: Defining the intents of an educational plan Helping teachers to plan steps necessary to achieve plan Helping students to know what is expected of them at the end of the program

Instructional Objectives Helping teachers, administrators and society to assess the products of the system Statement that described the teacher’s intent about how students should change

Mager format of instructional objectives Robert Mager (1962) Objectives must be OBSERVABLE and MEASURABLE ‘Behavioral Objectives’

Mager format of instructional objectives Suggested that objectives of learning need to be specific in term of: 1) Student behaviour What the learner will be able to do when he has mastered the objectives What learner will be doing or behavior the teacher will accept as evidence that the ‘objectives’ have been achieved using verbs that denote observable action “at the end of the lesson, the students should be able to identify….”

Mager format of instructional objectives 2) Testing situation Under what conditions he will be able to do it The condition under which the behaviour will be observed ‘given the blank world map students should be able to locate the 5 active volcanoes’

Mager format of instructional objectives 3) Performance criteria To what standard he will be able to do it The standard of the performance level defined as acceptable indicating correctness, speed, rate of response ‘given the blank world map students should be able to locate the 5 active volcanoes’

Mager format of instructional objectives use precise words – that are not open to many interpretations Link the 3 parts together when writing the behavioral objectives Start by stating students behaviours, condition and performance

Mager format of instructional objectives Examples : - state - list down - identify - compare - calculate - draw - name the… - colour the.. - measure - solve - match the..

Mager format of instructional objectives Criticisms: Not practical  difficult to write Difficult to accomplish the kind of specificity Becomes unmanageable for teachers to write because too many objectives and specificity

Instructional Objectives Groundlund (1970) suggested there are 2 levels of objectives: General objectives Specific objectives

Instructional Objectives General instructional objectives must be followed by a sample of specific behavioral outcomes Teaching may be directed towards achievement of the general objectives Specific objectives may form the basis for testing and assessment

Bloom’s Instructional Objectives There are different types of behaviours can be specified in writing the instructional objectives

Bloom’s Instructional Objectives Benjamin Bloom (1956) proposed the most helpful guides for the behaviour classification He created a scheme that classifies instructional objectives in a systematic way He divided the objectives into 3 domains: Cognitive domain : knowing fact and information Psychomotor domain: performing physical skills Affective domain: exhibiting personal attitudes