A synthesis is presented of the various rationales which predict the facilitative influence of instructional objectives on learning and retention. Facets which are particularly relevant to the ...

Objectives (What the book is about) -- Why care about objectives? (Importance of being explicit) -- Where objectives come from (Origins count) -- The qualities of useful objectives (Do they ...

Quality Matters Standard 2.4 is an essential (3 point) standard requiring that the relationship between the objectives and the learning activities are clearly stated. The annotation indicates that the ...

This resource was created to help faculty prepare to continue instruction in the event that their classes need to be canceled for a few days or an extended period of time due to personal illness, ...

Have you or your program conducted and completed the analysis steps? Then, you are ready to begin the Backwards Design process for creating your course and developing learning goals, objectives, and ...

Educational Technology Magazine is the world's leading periodical publication covering the entire field of educational technology, an area pioneered by the magazine's editors in the early 1960s. Read ...

The potential targets of school reform include the curriculum (what should be taught), instruction (how teaching occurs and who does it), and testing (the method by which learning is measured). Since ...

Anyone who has thought about public education must surely recognize how woefully obsolete our century old classroom model of one teacher delivering the same instruction to 35 diverse students is in ...