A synthesis is presented of the various rationales which predict the facilitative influence of instructional objectives on learning and retention. Facets which are particularly relevant to the ...

Educational Researcher (ER) is published nine times per year and is received by all members of AERA. It contains scholarly articles of general significance to the educational research community from a ...

Have you or your program conducted and completed the analysis steps? Then, you are ready to begin the Backwards Design process for creating your course and developing learning goals, objectives, and ...

This resource was created to help faculty prepare to continue instruction in the event that their classes need to be canceled for a few days or an extended period of time due to personal illness, ...

Objectives (What the book is about) -- Why care about objectives? (Importance of being explicit) -- Where objectives come from (Origins count) -- The qualities of useful objectives (Do they ...

The potential targets of school reform include the curriculum (what should be taught), instruction (how teaching occurs and who does it), and testing (the method by which learning is measured). Since ...