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Title: Creating Learning Objectives and Assessment Criteria


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Creating Learning Objectives and Assessment
Criteria
  • The BCC Assessment Team

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What Learning Objectives are NOT
  • Course requirements (e.g., a 10 page paper)
  • Course content per se (e.g., the four great
    Shakespearean tragedies)
  • Absolutely everything you expect a student to
    know or be able to do as a result of taking your
    particular course

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What learning objectives are
  • Expected learning outcomes or learning goals
    essential to any section of that course
  • Typically five or six of these will form the core
    of what students should be able to do as a result
    of taking the course

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Learning objectives are sometimes divided into
two categories
  • Subject matter objectives
  • Developmental objectives

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Examples of subject matter objectives
  • Students will identify the anatomy and physiology
    of the speech mechanism
  • Students will detect and avoid fallacious
    reasoning

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Examples of Developmental Objectives
  • Cognitive objectives e.g., students will
    demonstrate critical thinking skills
  • Affective objectives e.g., students will
    demonstrate an awareness of personal values

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Subject matter objectives tend to be more
specific developmental objectives tend to be
more general.
  • For this reason, learning objectives at the
    course level are typically subject matter
    objectives.

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An example of a problematic learning objective
  • Students should be familiar with the principles
    and theories of psychology.

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Whats problematic about this objective?
  • Given the breadth of psychology, this objective
    is probably too broad.
  • The word familiar is too vague what exactly
    constitutes familiarity with a theory?
  • Regarding both of the above, ask yourself how
    will the achievement of this objective be
    demonstrated?

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Learning objectives are also often confused with
course objectives, e.g., To familiarize
students with the process of photosynthesis.
  • Whats the difference?

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A learning objective has the individual learner
as a focus i.e.,
  • its about what the student should be able to do,
    not what the instructor hopes to cover in the
    course.

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Its a matter of perspective, but the perspective
is important.
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General Tip Consult the language of Blooms
Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain
  • Examples define, name, solve, demonstrate,
    create, categorize, use, etc.
  • By being behaviorally specified, these can all be
    measured to some degree.

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What are Assessment Criteria?
  • Specific tasks or demonstrable characteristics
    that allow one to evaluate the extent to which a
    learning objective has been met.
  • Here course requirements are acceptable, provided
    that it is clear how the required assignment
    measures the outcome relevant to the objective.

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An example of a learning objective and a
corresponding assessment criterion
  • Students will detect and avoid fallacious
    reasoning
  • Students will identify informal fallacies in
    newspaper and magazine editorials students will
    write their own argumentative essays that are
    free of such fallacies.

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You should expect that developing good assessment
criteria will cause you to reassess learning
objectives
  • and that clarifying learning objectives will
    cause you to develop novel ways of teaching and
    assessing learning.
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