This document discusses instructional goals and objectives, including how to write effective goals and objectives. It explains that goals are broad statements of intention while objectives should be specific about how instruction will impact the learner. Objectives should include an action, condition, and criterion using Mager's format or the ABCD format specifying audience, behavior, condition, and degree. Both terminal and enabling objectives are important, with terminal objectives explaining overall learning outcomes and enabling objectives describing supporting behaviors. Objectives should consider Bloom's revised taxonomy and ensure learners can synthesize, evaluate, analyze and apply what they have learned.

1. Instructional Goals and
Objectives
By: Andrea Wingett
EDP 332

2. What do you want the learner to know? (Objectives)
How will you know your learner has learned it?
(Assessment)
What are the best methods for accomplishing it?
(Design)
Main Questions to ask

3. Goals
The broad statements of intention and the hoped for
outcome
Objectives
Specific about how and to what degree the instruction
will impact the learner
Goals and Objectives

4. 1. Action
2. Condition
3. Criterion
Mager’s Performance Objectives

5. Audience
Behavior
Conditions
Degree
ABCD’s of Objective
(Smaldino, Lowther & Russel)

6. Terminal Objectives
Explain overall learning outcome
Enabling Objectives
Supporting descriptions of observable behaviors/actions
indicated in terminal objectives
Terminal and Enabling Objectives

7. When writing objectives keep
Bloom’s revised taxonomy in mind!
Put elements together to form new
coherent whole
Make judgments based on criteria
standards
Break into parts and detect how they
relate to one another
Carry out and use procedure
in given situation