Types of Learning Objectives
Objectives represent the learning that is being measured and they should be clearly stated to learners and any other audience.
Knowledge
Factual information, remembering, defining, describing, often early targets in a course or sequence of learning, for a basis for deeper learning.
Example: Identify the capitals of European countries.
What is the intended learning?
To know the capitals of European countries.
Understanding
Reasoning using facts to extrapolate, infer, classify, compare, generalize
Example: Identify the motivations of authors of historic documents.
What is the intended learning?
To infer motivations of authors based on content of text and knowledge of historic content.
Application/Skill
Repeating a learned process
Example: Uses calipers correctly.
What is the intended learning?
To perform accurate measurements using calipers.