Important Terminologies
About Instructional Objectives

Educational Aim:

General statement of intent with usually not much precision or direction. It doesn’t help much to the teacher in the teaching-learning situation simply because it cannot be used to decide on a teaching or learning strategy or some form of evaluation.

1. To enable the student to acquire a flexible mind and the ability to think.
2. To enable to student to understand History appropriately.

Instructional Objective:

A statement of proposed changes in the thoughts, feelings and actions of the students. They can be very specific and precise statements or they can be written in quiet general term depending on where they are going to be used. Accordingly, the instructional intent will be clear.

General Instructional Objective:

An intended outcome of instruction that has been stated in appropriate general terms to encompass a domain of student performance. It must be further defined by a set of specific learning outcomes.

Specific Learning Outcome (Specific Objective):

An intended outcome of instruction that has been stated in terms of specific and observable student performance. It describes the type of performance that learners will be able to exhibit when they have achieved a general instructional objective.

Student Performance:

Any measurable or observable student response that is a result of learning.