Instructional objectives are specific, measurable, short-term, observable student behaviors .
Objectives are not the sum of education, but pre-requisites, or foundations, for the higher goal of conversancy with the field. Objectives provide an organized pathway that will make it possible to meet the higher goals. This includes information recall, conceptual understanding, and problem-solving. Objectives for sequencing a unit plan will be more general than for specifying a lesson plan. Don't make writing objectives tedious, trivial, time-consuming, or mechanical.