IDea Institute, Fostering Excellence in Instructional Design, Evaluation and Assessment

How to Write Performance-based Objectives

Course Description
When it comes to designing and developing learning experiences and resources for business and industry, what counts are tangible business results. How can you make sure that your learning objectives impact performance and generate desired business results? That’s what you can expect to take away from this course.

Who Should Participate
Performance Technologists, Instructional Designers, Trainers, Training and Human Resource Managers, Subject Matter Experts, as well as Educational and Instructional Technologists

Content

  • Value Proposition — A brief overview of objectives, their history, and where you get the information to write them.
  • Get SMART2 — A detailed look at the characteristics of objectives.
  • Anatomy of an Objective — A breakdown of the core elements and associated guidelines.

Performance Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Distinguish terminal and enabling objectives.
  • List information sources for performance-based learning objectives.
  • Distinguish goals and learning objectives.
  • Identify the ten characteristics of effective performance-based learning objectives (SMART2).
  • Recognize the three essential elements of an effective performance-based learning objective.
  • Identify common learning objective writing pitfalls.
  • Critique learning objectives.
  • Given a scenario, assemble performance-based learning objectives.

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