This document discusses goals, objectives, and standards for assessing learners. It defines goals as broad statements of intention and objectives as more specific standards that learners must meet. Objectives should include the audience, behavior, conditions, and degree of mastery. There are different types of objectives like Mager's performance objectives specifying the action, condition, and criteria, and enabling versus terminal objectives with enabling objectives supporting a broader terminal objective. Quality objectives use verbs from Bloom's taxonomy ranging from lower level like describe to higher level like create.