It describes the intended outcome of your instruction rather than a description or summary of your content. It is but one of several steps that should be followed when developing instruction. We will focus here on writing learning objectives but don't forget the others, they all must be done to insure positive learning outcomes.
Objectives can cover knowledge, skills as well as attitudes.
An emphasis should always be placed on the students ability to integrate information to solve realistic problems as opposed to the acquisition of information alone. Procedure Many faculty members already write acceptable objectives and should continue to use the techniques that work for them. Experienced objectives writers may wish to scan the procedure below and reaffirm that their methods produce objectives which meet the ABCD criteria. The ABCD mnemonic is simple but does need some clarification. The B stands for behavior .