EVALUATE EXISTING OBJECTIVES WITH THIS CHECKLIST
We prepared this checklist to help you evaluate your objectives.
EVALUATING OBJECTIVES
Use this checklist to evaluate your objectives. It provides simple yes/no items. In the ideal, you would check "yes" to all these questions for your objectives.
THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF OBJECTIVES
This interactive model developed at Iowa State University's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching may help fill out your perspective on objectives. You mouse over part of the model and an example of an objective is presented. Click here to view the Iowa State model.
Here is another example of a model that is used at Oregan State University: Click here to view the Oregan State University model.
THE GOOGLE MAPS ANALOGY: EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP OF OBJECTIVES WITH INSTRUCTIONAL TACTICS AND MEDIA
If you want to deepen your understanding of how objectives work, how they are related to instructional tactics, and how instructional media is related, you may be interested in this illustrative analogy we developed using Google Maps. Click here to view the analogy: