If you do this exercise as a seminar presenter yourself, it also reveals the match between your goals and those of your audience. This assessment is best done at or near the beginning of a course because it allows the professor or leader to adjust the syllabus explicitly to include student interests.
Interested students get hooked, become active learners, and learn more.
A professor can help students achieve some goals and connect them to the main course outline by incorporating special projects and group work into overall course design. And, if some goals just can't be realized, an early, honest response can align expectations in a positive way and prevent disappointments. Classroom Assessment Techniques , 2nd ed. Use the middle column to rank your goals in terms of their relative importance to you. When you hear the presenter's goals, circle Yes in the right hand column next to each of your matching goals, regardless of rank.