Formulating Objectives

Why there is a need to write the course objectives?

What is the importance of objectives?

The value of Objectives

1. As a guide
2. Help determine whether people in a class have learned
what you have tried.
3. Objectives are essential from the learner’s perspective.
e.g.
1. Explain the rationale for people’s use of defense
mechanism.
2. Analyze in a given situation which defense
mechanisms are being used by an individual.

Selection and Statement of Objectives

Educational objectives are the elements of those changes

in behavior which are desired as a result of specific learner and
teacher activity. They define not only the behavior sought in the
learner but also the areas of human experience through which
this behavior is to be developed. In other words, a well-stated
educational objective has two (2) aspects.
1. Behavior – what the students should know or be able to
do.
2. Content – about which the subject matter or area of life
experience in which the behavior operates.

Categories of Behavioral Changes

1. Knowing – refers to the ability to recall. This maybe a
nature of memorization of routines to an extensive
knowledge manifested in deep understanding.
2. Comprehending – refers to a type of understanding.
3. Understanding – refers to the ability to comprehend or
apprehend the meaning or the import of something.
4. Applying - principles refers to the ability to apply
knowledge in the form of generalization to new problem
situations explicitly as well as implicitly.
5. Psychomotor Skill- is the ability to perform some type of
movement which involve the muscular system as well as
 the nervous system such as writing. carrying out a
teaching procedure consciously learned actions maybe
performed.
6. Attitudes- refers to the tendency or predisposition to look
at things in a particular way.
7. Interest – refers to a feeling or concern for a curiosity
about something.