A synthesis is presented of the various rationales which predict the facilitative influence of instructional objectives on learning and retention. Facets which are particularly relevant to the ...

Quality Matters Standard 2.4 is an essential (3 point) standard requiring that the relationship between the objectives and the learning activities are clearly stated. The annotation indicates that the ...

Teachers, parents, and students were involved in the needs-assessment phase of educational evaluation with the use of measurable objectives in mathematics. Ten teachers, 82 parents, and 634 students ...

Specific review standards 2.1 and 2.2 are the foundation of the alignment standards for Quality Matters just as the learning objectives are the foundation of course design. Standard 2.1 requires that ...

Objectives (What the book is about) -- Why care about objectives? (Importance of being explicit) -- Where objectives come from (Origins count) -- The qualities of useful objectives (Do they ...

Have you or your program conducted and completed the analysis steps? Then, you are ready to begin the Backwards Design process for creating your course and developing learning goals, objectives, and ...

In education–and particularly with my graduate students in higher education–students occasionally focus on the individual points of an assignment rubric instead of stepping back and looking ...

Anyone who has thought about public education must surely recognize how woefully obsolete our century old classroom model of one teacher delivering the same instruction to 35 diverse students is in ...