Activity:
Writing Instructional Objectives
Model
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Job
Aid: Learned Capability
Verbs
| Problem-solving |
Generate |
| Rule-using/Principle |
Demonstrate |
| Concepts |
Classify,
identify |
| Verbal
Information |
State,
list, recite, summarize |
| Attitude |
Choose |
| Psychomotor |
Execute |
The student will
be able to know the definition of "normal distribution".
- Learned capability:
state
- Object:
the definition of "normal" distribution
- Action: in
writing
- Conditions:
without the use of references.
The student will
be able to change a flat tire.
- Learned capability:
execute
- Object:
the changing of a flat tire
- Action:
by removing the flat from the car and replacing it with the spare
- Conditions:
observing safety rules.
The employee will
determine how much stock should be ordered to cover holiday buying.
- Learned capability:
generate
- Object:
an estimate of how much stock of various items will be needed to cover
increased demands due to holiday buying habits
- Action:
by constructing an excel spreadsheet of his or her estimate and writing
an explanation how he or she deduced it
- Conditions:
and explaining why this estimate is not unreasonably high.
The student will
understand Boyle's law.
- Learned capability:
demonstrate
- Object:
the relationship between pressure and temperature as expressed by Boyle's
law
- Action:
by recording the pressure increase over a temperature range of 100 to 110
degrees C.
- Conditions:
using the Smith pressure chamber with a safety setting of 40 lbs/sq. in.
The student will
sort resistors and capacitors.
- Learned capability:
identify
- Object:
resistors and capacitors
- Action:
by selecting them from the bin and putting them into separate piles
- Conditions:
without references, and at a rate of 15 pieces per minute.
The student will
know the poem, "Old Ironsides".
- Learned capability:
recite
- Object:
the poem"Old Ironsides"
- Action:
orally
- Conditions:
within five minutes, with no errors, prompting, or pauses.
The student will
know the Bill of Rights.
- Learned capability:
summarize
- Object:
four protections mentioned in the Bill of Rights
- Action:
in writing
- Conditions:
within 10 minutes, using no references.
These examples
taken or adapted from the Handbook of Procedures for the Design of Instruction
by L. Briggs and W. Wager.