Appendix 1: Learning Objectives Guide

Cognitive Domain

Knowledge

Remembering previously learned material

  • Answer
  • Choose
  • Complete
  • Confer
  • Define
  • Distinguish
  • Identify
  • Indicate
  • Inquire
  • Label
  • List
  • Locate
  • Match
  • Memorize
  • Name
  • Question
  • Recall
  • Recognize
  • Record
  • Relate
  • Repeat
  • Review
  • Select
  • Survey
  • Tabulate
  • Underline
→ Simple to Complex →

Comprehension

Grasping the meaning of the knowledge being learned and being able to paraphrase or explain it

  • Change
  • Classify
  • Comment
  • Compare
  • Compute
  • Convert
  • Demonstrate
  • Describe
  • Discuss
  • Estimate
  • Explain
  • Express
  • Generalize
  • Give example
  • Identify
  • Illustrate
  • Infer
  • Interpret
  • Locate
  • Measure
  • Paraphrase
  • Put in order
  • Rearrange
  • Recognize
  • Report
  • Restate
  • Review
  • Summarize
  • Tell
  • Trace
  • Transform
  • Translate

Application

Using learned information and materials

  • Apply
  • Arrange
  • Calculate
  • Change
  • Convert
  • Choose
  • Classify
  • Compile
  • Construct
  • Create
  • Demonstrate
  • Differentiate
  • Dramatize
  • Generalize
  • Illustrate
  • Implement
  • Interpret
  • Operate
  • Organize
  • Perform
  • Practice
  • Prepare
  • Present
  • Reconstruct
  • Schedule
  • Shop
  • Sketch
  • Solve
  • Transfer
  • Translate
  • Use

Analysis

Breaking material down into its elements so that its organizational structure may be understood

  • Analyze
  • Appraise
  • Calculate
  • Categorize
  • Classify
  • Compare
  • Contrast
  • Criticize
  • Debate
  • Deduce
  • Describe
  • Determine
  • Diagram
  • Differentiate
  • Discriminate
  • Distinguish
  • Divide
  • Draw conclusions
  • Examine
  • Experiment
  • Form generalizations
  • Group
  • Infer
  • Inspect
  • Interpret & Explain
  • Inventory
  • Organize
  • Put into list
  • Question
  • Relate
  • Review to analyze
  • Separate
  • Solve
  • Test

Synthesis

Combining previous experience with new material to form a structure

  • Arrange
  • Assemble
  • Categorize
  • Collect
  • Compose
  • Construct
  • Create
  • Design
  • Develop
  • Devise
  • Formulate
  • Organize
  • Plan
  • Prepare
  • Produce
  • Propose
  • Select
  • Set up
  • Solve

Evaluation

Judging or calculating the quality, importance, amount, or value of something

  • Appraise
  • Assess
  • Choose
  • Compare
  • Compare & contrast
  • Defend
  • Diagnose
  • Estimate
  • Evaluate
  • Judge
  • Justify
  • Rate
  • Revise
  • Score
  • Select
  • Value

Affective Domain

Receiving

Awareness, willingness to receive, and controlled attention

  • Accept
  • Attend
  • Develop
  • Realize
  • Receive
  • Recognize
→ Simple to Complex →

Responding

Compliance in reacting to a suggestion, willingness to respond, and satisfaction in response

  • Behave
  • Complete
  • Comply
  • Cooperate
  • Enjoy
  • Examine
  • Obey
  • Observe
  • Respond
  • Tolerate

Valuing

Acceptance of a value as a belief, indication of preference for the value, and commitment

  • Balance
  • Believe
  • Defend
  • Devote
  • Examine
  • Prefer
  • Pursue
  • Seek
  • Value

Organizing

Conceptualization of a value in abstract or symbolic terms and organization of value system

  • Codify
  • Discriminate
  • Display
  • Favor
  • Judge
  • Order
  • Organize
  • Relate
  • Theorize
  • Systematize
  • Weigh

Characterization

Acting consistently in accordance with the values one has.

  • Avoid
  • Display
  • Exhibit
  • Internalize
  • Manage
  • Require
  • Resist
  • Resolve
  • Revise

Psychomotor Domain

Imitation

The learner observes and then imitates an action. The expectation is that the individual is able to watch and then repeat an action.

  • Align
  • Balance
  • Follow
  • Grasp
  • Grasp
  • Place
  • Repeat
  • Rest (on)
  • Step (here)
→ Simple to Complex →

Manipulation

The action verbs are the same as Imitation stage, but the performance of an action is guided by written or verbal directions.

  • Align
  • Balance
  • Follow
  • Grasp
  • Grasp
  • Place
  • Repeat
  • Rest (on)
  • Step (here)

Precision

Requires performance of some action independent of either written instructions or a visual model.

  • Accurately
  • Errorlessly
  • Independently
  • Proficiently
  • With balance
  • With control

Articulation

Requires the display of coordination of a series of related acts by establishing the appropriate sequence and performing the acts accurately (i.e. control, speed, and timing)

  • Confidence
  • Coordination
  • Harmony
  • Integration
  • Proportion
  • Smoothness
  • Speed
  • Stability
  • Timing

Characterization

Acting consistently in accordance with the values one has.

  • Avoid
  • Display
  • Exhibit
  • Internalize
  • Manage
  • Require
  • Resist
  • Resolve
  • Revise

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