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191)          the learning objectives have been made clear

A learning objective refers to the content being taught and indicates a level of understanding or behaviour that the teacher wants the learner to achieve. Objectives communicate your expectations to students, to let them know what they are expected to accomplish and help them focus their learning activities. The learning objectives also guide your assessment strategies.

·         Biggs (1999) clarifies what objectives are and what they are not and explains how to set up criterion-referenced objectives (pp. 43 - 50). ·

·         Lowman (1984) describes different levels of objectives using Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives (pp. 148 - 152). This taxonomy might be useful in helping to determine objectives for your unit, lesson or activity. ·

·         Davis, Wood & Wilson (1983) provides a guide to outline to the learners what you are going to discuss in a lecture and why.

Biggs, J. (1999). Teaching for quality learning at university : What the student does. Buckingham: Society for Research into Higher Education : Open University Press.

Davis, B. G., Wood, L., & Wilson, R. C. (1983). A Berkeley compendium of suggestions for teaching with excellence [World Wide Web]. The University of California. Retrieved 20 October, 2002, from the World Wide Web: http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/suggestions/file38.html

Lowman, J. (1984). Mastering the techniques of teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.