Learning Objectives: DR Karuna Sree P Member - MEU

Learning Objectives
Dr Karuna Sree P
Member - MEU
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OBJECTIVES
At the end of the session, learner should able to..
• Define educational objective
• Distinguish learner objectives from teacher objectives
• Enumerate the uses of educational objectives in
medical educational process
• Differentiate the types of educational objectives
• Identify the qualities of educational objectives
Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021
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Education
 It is a process to bring about change in

learner’s behavior with respect to
knowledge, skill, attitude.

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Education spiral
Objectives
T/L
Evaluation
activities

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EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
DEFINITION- An educational objective is a

statement of what students should be able to do at the
end of a learning period that they could not do before .
Begin with the end in mind…

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What are Goals?
• Goals are broad, generalized statements about

what is to be learned. Think of them as a target
to be reached, or "hit."
ARROW
TARGET

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Competency
• An observable activity of a health professional,

integrating multiple components like knowledge, skills,
attitudes and values.
◦ International CBME Collaborators (2009)

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Why we need Objectives?

• Objectives are the foundation upon which you
can build lessons and assessments.
• Specify what student is expected to do at the

end
• Provides guidelines for question paper setter

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What are Objectives?

 More specific than goals
 target is identified toward which the program
action is oriented
 Can be long-term or immediate
 They are specific, achievable, and measurable
statements about what is going to be
accomplished within a certain time frame
 They are not lists of activities

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Uses of educational objectives

Planning educational programmes
Planning evaluation of the programme
Enable to direct their learning to achieve

predetermined goals

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TYPES OF OBJECTIVES
 National
 Institutional
 Intermediate
 Specific Learning Objectives

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Broad and specific objectives.
• The broad objectives are achieved with greater

difficulty
• The specific objectives are more apt to be achievable,

dynamic and capable of doing much to help promote
action and participation

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LEARNING
Vs
TEACHING

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Learner’s objectives
• The knowledge base they are expected to learn

• The depth they are to learn it
• How to use this knowledge

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Teacher’s objectives
▫ Accountability
▫ Selection of teaching method
▫ Evaluation
▫ Feedback

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Create a plan for teaching,

learning, and assessment
To begin, answer these questions:
▫ Who are your learners?
▫ What do you want them to learn?
▫ Does this align with school/licensure needs?
▫ What do they already know?
▫ How do the learners prefer to learn?
▫ How do you prefer to teach?
▫ How much time do you have?
▫ Who else teaches in this area and how does this impact your teaching?
▫ How will you know if they have learned?
▫ How will you know if you taught effectively?

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National Objective
• At the end of undergraduate program, the Indian

Medical Graduate should be able to:
▫ (a) recognize “health for all” as a national goal and health

right of all citizens and by undergoing training for medical
profession fulfill his/her social obligations towards
realization of this goal

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Example of institutional objective
The Indian Medical Graduates coming out of a medical institute

should:
▫ be competent to practice preventive, promotive, curative and
rehabilitative medicine in respect to the commonly encountered
health problems.
▫ Appreciate rationale for different therapeutic modalities, be

familiar with the administration of the "essential drugs" and their
common side effects.

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Intermediate Objectives
• Departmental objectives
• Derived from institutional objectives
▫ Example: The student should plan and carry out a blood

sampling session for a group of adults in the community.

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Specific Learning Objectives (SLO)
• End of each institutional unit.

• Derived from intermediate objectives
• Correspond to precise professional tasks
▫ Example: Should be able to write a rationale prescription

for typhoid fever at the end of II MBBS

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How to frame
Specific Learning Objective

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SLO
Characteristics
of clear
objectives is to
be "smart"-

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How to frame SLO
• Each learning objective must answer the following questions:

▫ Who will do, how much or how well of what by when?
• Identify the content areas
• Choose an action that is measurable and observable to specify
the desired learner performance
• Use more complex or higher order action verbs when
appropriate
• Avoid using action verbs such as – understand, know, learn,
appreciate, believe, be familiar with, comprehend etc.

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SLO - guidelines
• Action verb
• Content
• Criteria
• Condition
• ABCD – Audience, Behaviour, Condition, Degree

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• Learning objective template:
• “At the end of this (session, lecture, activity, etc.),

students will be able to ____ (insert an action verb).

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Cognitive –
knowledge
domain

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Correct - Audience

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Frame the Objectives - Relevant

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Writing objectives under each domain

Competency Domain Objective
Knowledge
Skill
Attitude
Communication

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TASK
Write one Specific Learning

Objective:
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Learning Objectives

 It is a process to bring about change in

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

DEFINITION- An educational objective is a

Begin with the end in mind…

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

What are Goals?

• Goals are broad, generalized statements about

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

• An observable activity of a health professional,

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

Why we need Objectives?

• Specify what student is expected to do at the

• Provides guidelines for question paper setter

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

What are Objectives?

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

Uses of educational objectives

Planning evaluation of the programme

Enable to direct their learning to achieve

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

 Specific Learning Objectives

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

Broad and specific objectives.

• The broad objectives are achieved with greater

• The specific objectives are more apt to be achievable,

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

• The knowledge base they are expected to learn

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

Create a plan for teaching,

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

• At the end of undergraduate program, the Indian

▫ (a) recognize “health for all” as a national goal and health

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

Example of institutional objective

The Indian Medical Graduates coming out of a medical institute

▫ Appreciate rationale for different therapeutic modalities, be

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

• Derived from institutional objectives

▫ Example: The student should plan and carry out a blood

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

Specific Learning Objectives (SLO)

• End of each institutional unit.

▫ Example: Should be able to write a rationale prescription

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How to frame SLO

• Each learning objective must answer the following questions:

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• ABCD – Audience, Behaviour, Condition, Degree

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

• Learning objective template:

• “At the end of this (session, lecture, activity, etc.),

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021

Dr Karuna Sree P 09/23/2021