Hey Trainers - Write 38 Instant Measurable Objectives in Minutes!
Having written objectives for over 25+ years, I admit.. I am very picky. And when I see a document that starts off with objectives that include "understand", I cringe. Excuse me... how to do measure someone's understanding of a concept or procedure? You can't.
What is a measurable objective?
- Objectives are written to give direction to training events.
- A measurable objective is an "action" verb engaging the learner to demonstrate new knowledge or problem solving skills.
- A measurable objective is "capable of being measured" dictionary.com
Here is how to quickly create measurable objectives with Bloom's Taxonomy theory into practice.
1. At the Knowledge Level: the learner exhibits previously learned materials by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts and answers.
2. At the Comprehension Level: the learner demonstrates the ability to relate to facts and ideas by organizing, comparing, translating, interpreting, giving descriptions and stating main ideas.
3. At the Application Level: the learner solves problems by applying knowledge, facts, techniques and rules in a different way.
Level 3: Key Words include: Apply, build, choose, construct, develop, experiment with, identify, interview, make use of, model, organize, plan, select, solve, utilize
Use these Instant Objectives:
The student will be able to:
- Solve common business case scenarios using ...
- Identify what would result if ... happened
- Select the best ways to solve a problem
- Organize the ... into... for efficiency
- Utilize the process to ...
4. At the Analysis Level: the learner examines and breaks down information into parts by identifying motives or causes; making inferences and finding evidence to support generalizations.
Level 4: Key Words include: Analyze, assumption, categorize, classify, compare, conclusion, contrast, discover, distinguish, divide, examine, inspect, simplify, survey, take part in, test for
Use these Instant Objectives:
The student will be able to:
- Discover the process by examining the individual components of the ...
- Classify the .. into elements
- Conclude that ... will happen if the following steps occur
- Examine the relationship between ...
- Categorize the parts of the ...
5. At the Synthesis Level: the learner compiles information together in a different way by combining elements in a new pattern or other solution.
- Offer opinions on the effectiveness of specific wording to customers.
- Estimate the amount of time it takes to...
- Recommend effective strategies or tactics to complete work more efficiently.
- Recommend three approaches to...
- Rate the effectiveness of ...
- Defend the actions of ...
- Evaluate representative / client conversations for ...
- Assess the value of ...
A closing note on writing objectives....
Don't use more than 3-5 objectives per unit of instruction. If there are more than that, consider breaking that unit into two parts. And .... even though we would like to think that we live in a perfect world and the learners need to achieve competence up to Level 6 - that's not reality. Be happy if you can get them to solidly achieve typical goals of Levels 1 - 4.
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