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Marken, James; Morrison, Gary – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2013
While the concept of objectives is widely used in many applied fields of instruction, the systematic derivation and application of objectives for learning and instruction is a key feature of systematic instructional design. However, the treatment of objectives and the terminology surrounding them is sometimes nebulously employed. This article…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Objectives, Vocabulary, Instructional Design
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Stedman, Carlton H. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1973
Presents information gained from a study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of providing students with behavioral objectives, with a secondary purpose being to evaluate achievement results across the first four levels of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. No significant differences were found between knowledge and comprehension or…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Biology, Cognitive Objectives, Educational Research
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Coleman, Clarence D., Jr.; Fowler, H. Seymour – 1973
The purpose of the study was to investigate differences in learning as attributed to the instructional treatment of behavioral objectives of students in a general physical science laboratory. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant difference in the achievement of students in physical science who were exposed to laboratory methods…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, College Science
Anderson, Elaine J.; And Others – 1974
Investigated was the effect of systematically combined high and low level cognitive objectives upon the acquisition of science learning. An instructional unit based on a Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) Inquiry Slide Set (structure and function, control of blood sugar, a homeostatic mechanism) was chosen because it included stimuli for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Biology, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Objectives
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Doran, Rodney L. – Science Education, 1978
Reviews several schemes for organizing science laboratory objectives and activities and for analyzing several techniques designed to measure these laboratory outcomes. The need for further study and analysis of psychomotor behaviors in science education is emphasized. (HM)
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Educational Assessment
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Duchastel, Philippe C.; Merrill, Paul F. – Review of Educational Research, 1973
Results obtained from the research were inconsistent, indicating no support for the thesis that objectives aid learning. Research recommendations are submitted, with conclusions drawn reflecting the positive attitudes toward presenting objectives. (JB)
Descriptors: Achievement, Advance Organizers, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives
Woodbury, Charles A., Jr.; Jacobson, Milton D. – 1970
Crucial to curriculum development and change is the assessment of cognitive objective achievement and the identification of cognitive needs. Validation of instrumentation to evaluate the attainment of cognitive behavioral objectives was an essential first step in a state-wide educational needs assessment study conducted by the investigators. A…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Curriculum Development
Taylor, Curtis L.; And Others – 1973
An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of providing learners with instructional objectives prior to instruction with non objectives-based materials. The objectives of these materials were inferred by the researchers. Sixty-four university students were randomly assigned to treatment groups in which they received either no objectives,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advance Organizers, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives
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Finch, Alton V. – National Business Education Yearbook, 1971
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Business Education, Classification
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Raghubir, Karran P. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1979
Investigated the effect on achievement and retention of providing students enrolled in a grade 11 biology course with precisely stated learning outcomes prior to instruction. Results show that the experimental group performed significantly higher than did the control group on both tests. (HM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Educational Research
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Nehari, Miriam; Bender, Hilary – Higher Education, 1978
A conceptual model for the meaningfulness and value of a course of study as judged by students in higher education is developed. It suggests that in a course, perceived meaningfulness and value are related to the perceived learnings in the cognitive-subject matter, affective-personal, and behavioral domains. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives
Moody, David B. – 1974
The relative effectiveness of including behavioral objectives, classified according to the major levels of cognition, in independent study materials for high school juniors is analyzed in this brief summary of the author's dissertation. The three major questions under consideration are whether: (1) the use of behavioral objectives has an effect…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Carter, Larry G. – 1974
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between the two basic factors, progressivism and traditionalism, that underlie attitudes toward education and the range of behavioral objectives which teachers consider important for student achievement. The research involves a measure of teacher attitudes toward education and a…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Educational Objectives
Armstrong, David G. – 1977
The paper assesses the degree of understanding about the free enterprise system gained by participants in a one-month summer inservice teacher training institute. Developed in response to a 1973 Texas House Bill which mandated the inclusion of free enterprise education in the secondary curriculum, the institute suggests major topics, concepts, and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Capitalism, Cognitive Objectives, Concept Formation
Patel, Vimla; Cranton, Patricia A. – 1982
The use of an alternative methodology to study transfer of learning in clinical instruction during medical school was investigated. The environment in which clinical instruction takes place was examined, after which hypotheses were proposed and tested in a quasi-experimental design. The first phase of the study, an ethnographic analysis of the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Observation Techniques, Clinical Experience, Cognitive Objectives