Title: How to Finalize Description and Objectives
Author: Hauwa Abashiya
Published: June 7, 2021
Last modified: March 24, 2023

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# How to Finalize Description and Objectives

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## **Objectives Guidelines**

Learning objectives must contain 4 parts:

 * Audience – Whose behavior do you hope to change?
 * Behavior – What is the new knowledge, skill, and/or attitude you hope to achieve?
 * Condition – What are the circumstances under which they will demonstrate the 
   behavior?
 * Degree – How well or how often will they demonstrate the behavior?

Ex: You will be able to write learning objectives, using the ABCD model provided
above, including all four components in every objective without assistance.

The objectives should be:

 * Specific 
 * Measurable
 * Attainable
 * Time-Bound

Try to focus on what the learner will **do**, not what the learner will learn. 

Learning objectives will fall into one of the three categories of [Bloom’s Cognitive Domain](https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/guidelines/blooms-taxonomy/):

 1. **Knowledge** – Example objective verbs: Describe, recall, recognize, identify,
    explain, paraphrase, distinguish, give an example, summarize.
 2. **Skills** – Example objective verbs: Apply, modify, construct, produce, solve,
    use, predict, evaluate, devise, design, create.
 3. **Attitude** – Example objective verbs: Relate, implement, illustrate, show, defend,
    apply, critique.

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June 7, 2021

Last updated

March 24, 2023

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