1. What is the Point? A Writing Objectives Primer
By Jennifer Spink Strickland -

2. Objectives for Today
Differentiate between a Course Competency and Objective
Identify Key elements of an objective
Understand how objectives inform both you, your students, your chair, and anyone else
Identify clear and concise objectives
Compose objectives that demonstrate your content
Recognize how alignment of objectives and content are crucial

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4. Competency vs. Objective
Battle of terms

5. Objectives build Competencies
Steps along the way

6. Objectives The Path to Success
Objectives! It’s all about your objectives! Objectives are the map to your course – your map, your students map, everyone can navigate your course if your objectives are clear, concise, located appropriately, and measurable! Why are objectives so important? What makes them the big picture?

7. Remember Your ABCD’s! Audience – always the student Behavior Condition
Degree of acceptable completion
A is the audience, always the student.
B is the behavior or the action verb.
C is the condition which describe the relevant factors associated with the desired performance. For example:
1. after attending a lecture
2. following review of a demonstration
3. given a case study
4. after completing the assignment
5. given a specific instrument
D is the degree of achievement or acceptable percent of correct responses
2. within a given time period

8. Anatomy of a great objective
Student will be able to:
Predict how the Mankiw Rule will impact monetary policy in future markets.
Written from the student perspective
Concrete; Measurable behavior
Reflects a portion of the course competency
Collectively reflects all levels of cognition

9. Value of Bloom’s http://www.officeport.com/edu/blooms.htm
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10. Clarity is Crucial Unclear Clear Understand To know Appreciate Enjoy
To learn
Write
Recite
Recall
Identify
Build
Design

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12. Objectives Help you… Revise Align Design Help students… Navigate
Develops a pattern
Learn in incriminates
Success is measurable and seen!
For you they help you revise when you need by clearly stating what your activities should be, they help you align your work, activities, and homework to the objectives and the assessment, and they help you decide how to design your online structure by informing you what is needed.
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13. Design Elements: Objectives
Mode of Presentation
Variety of Activities
Transitions
Assessment
Feedback
Building Community
Organization or Structure
Objectives
Because your objectives inform your mode of presentation, variety of activities, they dictate your transitions, the directly inform your assessments and the type of feedback your provide your students. They give your course structure – a beginning, a middle, an end, and a picture of your trip! Your objectives can also dictate how, when, and in what manner you foster community in your course. How do they do all this?

14. Objectives at work: In a unit
In this unit you will:
Identify components of the Hawaiian Cultural Values
Describe how Pauahi exemplified these values in her life
Integrate these values in your life
For you they help you revise when you need by clearly stating what your activities should be, they help you align your work, activities, and homework to the objectives and the assessment, and they help you decide how to design your online structure by informing you what is needed.
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15. Which activities align with the objective?
Identify components of the Hawaiian Cultural Values: Determining Activities
Reading on Hawaii’s Reliance on the tourist industry
Video showing the impact of pollution on Waikiki’s beaches
Video demonstrating how Hawaiians embrace hospitality, compassion, humility, and generosity.
Article about the geological significance of Hawaii’s landscapes.
For you they help you revise when you need by clearly stating what your activities should be, they help you align your work, activities, and homework to the objectives and the assessment, and they help you decide how to design your online structure by informing you what is needed.
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Which activities align with the objective?

16. Identify components the Hawaiian Cultural Values: Assessment
Essay discussing the impact of values on the Hawaiin culture
Quiz identifying Hawaiian values
Discussion (or discussion board post) addressing how the cultural values have informed and shaped the Hawaiin culture
Which assessments align with the objective?

17. Last question

18. Resources
NAACLS Writing Objectives: objectives.pdf
UCSD School of Medicine: ves.pdf
Carnegie Mellon: gobjectives.html
University of Arkansas: s

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