Week 6 - Behavioural Objectives, Domains of Learning & Teaching Plans

What should be considered first before selecting the content to be taught?

What the learner is expected to accomplish.

Goals are . . .

- Global

- Broad

- Long-term

- Multi-dimensional

Objectives are . . .

- Specific

- Singular

- Short-term

- Uni-dimensional

Objectives contain goals (True/False).

False

1 multiple choice option

What are the 3 main types of objectives?

- Educational

- Instructional

- Behavioural

What are educational objectives?

Objectives that are used to identify the intended outcomes of the education process.

What are instructional objectives?

Objectives that describe the teaching activities and resources used to facilitate learning.

What are behavioural (learning) objectives?

Objectives that describe what the learner will aim to do following a learning situation.

What is blending?

When the teacher and client collaborate and mutually decide on objectives.

What are 3 important characteristics of learning objectives?

- Performance

- Condition

- Criterion

What is performance with regards to learning objectives?

What the learner is expected to be able to do that will demonstrate evidence that the objectives have been achieved.

What is condition with regards to learning objectives?

The condition under which behaviour will occur.

What is criterion with regards to learning objectives?

The time frame and level of competence that the learner will strive to achieve.

What is the ABCD rule for making learning objectives?

- Audience

- Behaviour

- Condition

- Degree

What is taxonomy?

A way to categorize related elements.

What are 3 types of learning domains in Blooms Taxonomy?

- Cognitive

- Affective

- Psychomotor

What is the cognitive domain?

The domain that involves acquiring information and addressing the development of the learner's intellectual abilities, mental capacities, understanding, and thinking processes.

What are the 6 levels of objectives in the cognitive domain?

- Knowledge

- Comprehension

- Application

- Analysis

- Synthesis

- Evaluation

What is the knowledge level in the cognitive domain?

The ability of the learner to memorize, recall, define, recognize, or identify specific information, such as facts, rules, principles, conditions, and terms, presented during instruction.

What is the comprehension level in the cognitive domain?

The ability of the learner to demonstrate an understanding of what is being communicated by recognizing it in a translated form and summarizing it in their own words.

What is the application level in the cognitive domain?

The ability of the learner to use ideas, principles, abstractions, or theories in specific situations, such as figuring, writing, reading, or handling equipment.

What is the analysis level in the cognitive domain?

The ability of the learner to recognize and structure information by breaking it down into its separate parts and specifying the relationship between the parts.

What is the synthesis level in the cognitive domain?

The ability of the learner to put together parts into a unified whole by creating a unique product that is written, oral, or in picture form.

What is the evaluation level in the cognitive domain?

The ability of the learner to judge the value of something by applying appropriate criteria.

What is the affective domain?

The domain that involves an increasing internalization or commitment to feelings expressed as emotions, interests, beliefs, attitudes, values, and appreciations.

What are the 5 levels of objectives in the affective domain?

- Receiving

- Responding

- Valuing

- Organization

- Characterization

What is the receiving level in the affective domain?

The ability of the learner to show awareness of an idea or fact or a consciousness of a situation or event in the environment.

What is the responding level in the affective domain?

The ability of the learner to respond to an experience, at first obediently and later willingly and with satisfaction.

What is the valuing level in the affective domain?

The ability of the learner to regard or accept the worth of a theory, idea, or event, demonstrating sufficient commitment or preference to an experience that is perceived as having value.

What is the organization level in the affective domain?

The ability of the learner to organize, classify, prioritize, and view some values as dominant.

What is the characterization level in the affective domain?

The ability of the learner to display adherence to a total philosophy or worldview, showing firm commitment to the values by generalizing certain experiences into a value system.

What is the psychomotor domain?

The domain that involves acquiring fine and gross motor abilities.

What are the 7 levels of objectives in the psychomotor domain?

- Perception

- Set

- Guided response

- Mechanism

- Complex Overt Response

- Adaptation

- Origination

What is the perception level in the psychomotor domain?

The ability of the learner to show sensory awareness of objects or cues associated with some task to be performed.

What is the set level in the psychomotor domain?

The ability of the learner to exhibit readiness to take a certain kind of action.

What is the guided response level in the psychomotor domain?

The ability of the learner to exert effort via overt actions under the guidance of an instructor to imitate an observed behaviour with conscious awareness of effort.

What is the mechanism level in the psychomotor domain?

The ability of the learner to repeatedly perform steps of a desired skill with a certain degree of confidence.

What is the complex overt response level in the psychomotor domain?

The ability of the learner to perform a complex motor action with minimum guidance.

What is the adaptation level in the psychomotor domain?

The ability of the learner to modify or adapt a motor process to suit the individual or various situations.

What is the origination level in the psychomotor domain?

The ability of the learner to create new motor acts.

What is a teaching plan?

A blueprint that outlines how the goals and objectives will be achieved.

What does a teaching plan include?

- Goal

- Objectives

- Purpose

- Content outline

- Methods of teaching

- Time allotment

- Resources

- Method of evaluation

What is a learning contract?

A written or verbal agreement between the educator and the learner to lay out specific teaching and learning activities that will occur in a specific time frame.

What does a learning contract include?

- Specific behavioural objectives

- Performance expectations

- Evaluation

- Time frame