PURPOSES OF INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

1. It provides direction for the instructional process by clarifying the intended learning outcomes.
2. It conveys instructional intent to other stakeholders such as students, parents, school officials, and the public.
3. It provides basis for assessing the performance of the students by describing the performance to be measured.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
 The term goals and objectives are two different concepts but they are related to each other. Goals and objectives
are very important, most especially when you want to achieve something for the student in any classroom
activities.
GOALS OBJECTIVES
Broad Narrow
General intention Precise
Intangible Tangible
Abstract (less structured) Concrete
Cannot be validated as is Can be validated
Long term aims what you want to accomplish Short term aims what you want to achieve
Hard to quantify or put in a timeline Must be given a timeline to accomplish to be more
effective

Goal, General Educational Program Objectives, and Instructional Objectives

1. Goals.
 A broad statement of very general educational outcomes that do not include specific level of performance.
 It tend to change infrequently and in response to the societal pressure.
2. General Educational Program Objectives
 More narrowly defined statements of educational outcomes that apply to specific educational programs;
formulated on the annual basis; developed by program coordinators, principals, and other school administrators.
3. Instructional Objectives
 Specific statement of the learner’s behavior or outcomes that are expected to be exhibited by the students after
completing a unit of instruction. Unit of instruction may mean: a two weeks lesson on polynomials or one week
lesson on parallelism after correlatives.
Typical Problems Encountered When Writing Objectives
Problems Error types Solutions
Too broad or complex The objective is too broad in scope Simplify or break apart
or is actually more than one
objective
False or missing behavior, The objective does not list the Be more specific; make sure the
condition, or degree correct behavior, condition, and/or behavior, condition and degree are
degree, or it is missing included
False given Describes instruction not conditions Simplify, included ONLY ABCDs
False performance No true overt, observable Describe what behavior you must
performance listed observe
Four Main Things That Objectives Should Specify
1. Audience – who?
2. Observable Behavior – What?
3. Special Condition – How?
4. Stating Criterion level – How much?
Types of Educational Objectives
1. Specific or Behavioral Objectives
 Precise statement of behavior to be exhibited by the students
 The criterion by which mastery of the objectives will be judged
 The statement of the conditions under which behavior must be demonstrated
2. General or Expressive Objectives
 Statement wherein the behaviors are not usually specified and the criterion of the performance level is not stated.
 It only describes the experience or educational activity to be done.
 The outcome of the activity is not expressed in specific terms but in general terms such as understand, interpret, or
analyze.