How to write aims and objectives

1. AIM AND OBJECTIVES
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2. KNOW ABOUT YOURSELF
Do you know
Your name
Your town
Your life style
Your requirements
Your skills
Do you FEEL all this?
ARE YOU CONNECTED?

3. WAYS TO KNOW ABOUT YOURSELF
Introspection
 Pay attention and take notes of your own experiences, actions and reactions
 Pay attention to how you feel inside while you participate in a variety of activities can give you some insight into
your own behavioral preferences
 Pay attention to your body language and note when you feel bored and tired or interested in a particular activity.
Also note down your personnel preferences
Observation
 In addition to what you see in yourself, the observations of others can also be helpful. During observation, keep in
mind the following key concepts,
 Situation …… What is going on
 Specific behavior ….. What happened
 Impact …….. What is the result
Feedback giving and receiving
 Feedback information can be given in a helpful or a harmful way. Actually sharing observation in an interpretation
of reality. So be kind and real to yourself and to others when sharing your observations.
 Feedback from others is the impression or opinion of the observers. Try to evaluate the feedback and think deeply
on that for yourself improvement
Assessment tools
 Try to use assessment tools like taking personality tests for comprehending your personality
 Put some structure around observations, inner thoughts, feedback and score of the assessment tool to make
some sense out of all the information
 Assess your positive and negative points. Start playing game on your strengths and trying to improve your
weakness.

4. Hexagonal Model of
Personalities
Rido Scale Self
Assessment

5. KNOW YOUR AIMS
Aim (Definition)
 An aim is related with something intended or desired to be obtained by one’s
efforts.
 E.g. The educational aim is an expression of what a student hope he can
accomplish.
My aim in this project is … to map, to develop, to design, to track, to generate, to
theorise, to build, etc

6. KNOW YOUR OBJECTIVES
Objective (Definition)
 The objective is a desirable outcome of intended action through the mode of education (pertaining to
that whose delineation is known).
 E.g. The educational objective is an expression of what a teacher hope his student can accomplish as
a result of his teaching.
In order to achieve this aim, I will… collect, construct, produce, test, trial, measure, document,
pilot, deconstruct, analyse… Objectives are often presented as a (1) (2) (3) formatted list – this
makes visible the sequence of big steps in the project.

7. TYPES (DOMAINS) OF LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Cognitive objectives
 Describe the knowledge that
learners are to acquire
Affective objectives
 Describe the attitudes, feelings, and
dispositions that learners are expected to develop
Psychomotor objectives
 Relate to the manipulative and motor
skills that learners are to master

8. THE COGNITIVE DOMAIN (BLOOM, 1956)
INTELLECTUAL SKILLS
Knowledge – Remembering the information
Comprehension – Understanding the meaning
Application – Using the information
Analysis – Breaking down into parts
Synthesis – Producing a new whole
Evaluation – Judging the value

9. THE AFFECTIVE DOMAIN (BLOOM, 1964)
EMOTIONS, FEELINGS & VALUES
Receiving - Willing to listen or see
Responding - Active participation
Valuing - Internalize the worthiness
Organization - Ability to see the value
Characterization by a value - Behavior consistent with a value
system

10. THE PSYCHOMOTOR DOMAIN
MUSCULAR, MOTOR SKILLS, “HANDS-ON”
Readiness - Willingness for an activity
Observation - Watches & is interested
Perception - Senses & becomes able
Response - Practices a skill
Adaptation - Develops and masters a skill

11. TASK
Write down your career aim in maximum 2 lines
Write down your career objectives in maximum 2 lines
Scale yourself based upon the Rido Scale of Self Assesment
Categorize yourself based upon Hexagonal Model of Personalities
Take Home
An aim is the WHAT of research, and the
objective is the how [2].

12. REFERENCES
1. http://www.slideshare.net/mhnsathish/educational-aims-objectives
2. http://patthomson.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/aims-and-objectives-whats-
the-difference/
3. http://www.slideshare.net/MidrarUlHaq/knowing-yourself-presentation