1. Significant Learning Goals

2. Goals, Objectives, and Outcomes, oh my!
Learning outcomes
Participants will align an existing goal, objective, or outcome with their desired cognitive level.
Participants will write a new goal and objective or outcome at a specific cognitive.
Participants will evaluate existing goals, objectives, or outcomes in order to identify candidates for revision.

3. Jigsaw- learning, teaching, reflecting
Learning Taxonomies

4. Learning Taxonomies – Bloom
David R. Krathwohl, A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy: An Overview, 2002.

5. Learning Taxonomies – Fink
Learning How to Learn
Self-directed learning
Caring
Developing new:
Feelings
Interests
values
Application
Skills
Thinking
Managing projects
Integration
Connecting:
Ideas
People
Realms of life
Foundational Knowledge
Understanding
Remembering
Human Dimension
Learning about:
Oneself
Others
©2003 L. Dee Fink, Creating Significant Learning Experiences

6. Learning Taxonomies
Anderson and Krathwohl, 2001
SOLO Taxonomy

7. What do we want students to know?

8. Three to five years later, my students still know. are able to do
Three to five years later, my students still know... are able to do... find value in...
(aka- What would be embarrassing for students not to know after they took your course?)
Brainstorm, call outs (15 min – 7 min to write and hang paper, 8 minutes to share)
Learning goals worksheet
Dream BIG!

9. What is the context in which we must work?
Situational Factors
What is the context in which we must work?

10. Your course, your dream, your students’ learning…
The real world…
Learning Goals
Your course, your dream, your students’ learning…
Use situational factors worskheet
©2010 Michael Palmer

11. Levels of Goals/outcomes

12. Vision & Change (national)

13. Learning Goals - Levels
University
Program
Course
Unit/Topic
Create enlightened citizens
Evaluate scientific resources
Distinguish science from psuedo-science
Find evidence of peer-reviewed science in newspaper articles

14. Goals – Objectives - Outcomes
Goals are statements about general purposes of education that are broad and long-range
Objectives are brief, clear statements that describes the desired learning outcomes of instruction
Outcomes are statements that describe significant and essential learning that learners have achieved.

15. Activity
Look at your University, College, and Department to see if there are explicit goals, objectives, or outcomes.

16. Significant Learning Goals Objectives

17. Types of Learning Objectives
Cognitive – “What do you want your students to know?”
Affective – “What do you want your students to think or care about?”
Behavioral– “What do you want your students to be able to do?”.

18. Writing Learning Objectives/Outcomes Pick a level, type, and taxonomy
Select an action word that identifies the performance to be demonstrated
Determine a statement that reflects what learning will be demonstrated
Include criteria for acceptable performance

19. Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Timely
SMART Objectives
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Timely

20. Example Good – Students will be able to write a research paper
Better – Students will be able to write a research paper in the appropriate style
Best – Students will be able to write a research paper in the appropriate style that reflects the data presented

21. How about this one?
Students should know the fundamental concepts of cell biology
Is this a good learning objective?
Why or why not?

22. Your turn…
Need a worksheet