Week 4. Reflections

Writing Objectives

Task:
1. To write an objective based on Bloom's Taxonomy and the ABCD of objectives.

Steps:
1. Research Bloom's Taxonomy.
2. Research the ABCD of objectives.
3. Choose a topic, to write an objective on.
4. Use Bloom's Taxonomy wheel to select a verb to aid in the writing of the objective.

Challenges faced while writing objective:
1. Understanding how to use Attitude, Skills and Knowledge (ASK) to structure an objective.
2. Selecting a verb from the taxonomy wheel to write an objective which wasn't too vague.

Solutions used to overcome challenges:
1. Asked the teacher to identify some verbs which can be associated with each domain, (ASK).
2. Created my own examples and showing them to the teacher for her to comment.

I learned that there is three domains involved with learning, the Attitude, Skill and Knowledge domains. Also whenever writing objectives four factors must be considered, known as the ABCD of objectives,
i) Audience-who its intended for.
ii) Behavior- the verb used.
iii) Condition- under what circumstance.
iv) Degree- how well is the task to be completed.
In writing objectives, the main rule to follow is the ABCD of objectives. By following this rule, only the verb has to be changed in order to make the objective fall in any of the three domains. The Degree can also be stated as a percentage (of accuracy) or number. Although objectives can have numerous conditions, it can only have one behaviour (verb).