As Teachers Identify Instructional Goals and Objectives,they Won't Necessarily Want

question 53

Multiple Choice

As teachers identify instructional goals and objectives,they won't necessarily want to describe each and every behavior they expect students to demonstrate. If they did so,they might generate a long list of relatively trivial behaviors. A reasonable alternative would be to:

• A)Develop a mixture of general and specific objectives.
• B)Develop a few abstract objectives,with examples of behaviors reflecting each one.
• C)Emphasize the "remember" and "understand" levels of Bloom's taxonomy.
• D)Forego instructional objectives whenever the focus is on complex cognitive skills.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviations

Measures the amount of variation or dispersion from the mean in a set of data points.

Empirical Rule

A statistical rule stating that for a normal distribution, nearly all data will fall within three standard deviations (denoted as sigma) of the mean.

Numerical Descriptive Measures

Statistics that quantitatively describe or summarize features of a collection of information, such as mean, median, mode, and range.

Population Measurements

The process of obtaining and analyzing specific characteristics or parameters of a defined group of individuals to generalize findings.