The+Librarian-Teacher

How to Write Measurable Objectives:

In order to write measurable objectives, or adapt measurable objectives, one would need to go back to their lesson plan and curriculum standards. I don't think one will find someone else with the exact same set of circumstances as they would have in their school setting.

So, say you are teaching keywords to your 3rd graders. You are hoping that 9/10 students will be able to identify the keyword in a question with 90% accuracy. Your measurable objective would require you to design an assessment (say 20 questions with identifiable keywords in each), give the assessment and show that 90% of the students scored a 90 or better on the assessment. Or you could give them a pretest with just 10 questions and not having taught them anything about keywords before, score it, and then write your measurable objective as All 3rd grade students' ability to identify the keyword in a question will increase by 90% by the end of this teaching unit (3 classes). You teach keyword, incorporating different learning modalities, and then give the assessment

Say you have 80 3rd graders. Record all of their grades and then see how many got a 90 or higher. Figure out if that is 90% (72 students). If not do you have 64-65 students of the 80 students getting a 90 or better? If so, you've met your objective.

I have roughly the same number of students -375 and I too make them switch and correct each other's papers I am not so great at actually recording their grades until it is report card time though. Then with their work I factor in their attitude, work ethic and behavior to get their grade for the semester. I think the thing is to be able to justify the grade should anyone ask

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As long as you include the ABCD's for each objective you write, you can make them measurable.

EX:

A=Audience = Students

B= Behavior = action verb

C= Conditions = parameters they will be under

D= Degree = measurement (could be time)

The elementary students(audience) in my school will check out(behavior) at least two(degree) books per semester(conditions).

From the Ninth Edition of Instructional Technology and Media for Learning by Smaldino, Lowther, and Russell, here is another example.

"Given clip art software and PowerPoint software, first grade students will construct a four-slide presentation that has one student-selected clip art image per slide to demonstrate four student moods: happy, sad, angry, and bored.".