The following characteristics should be true of the District's education objective statements which will guide the objective-based curriculum.
| | A. | Each objective should be concise and understandable to staff, students, parents, and the community.
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| | B. | Each objective should encompass previous learnings and require the student to integrate and then apply certain knowledge, skills, and attitudes in order to demonstrate achievement of the objective.
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| | C. | Each objective should constitute learning that is:
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| | | 1. | durable - will be useful to the student for a considerable period of his/her lifetime;
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| | | 2. | significant - will have a major effect upon how the student will function;
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| | | 3. | transferable - will be useful in meeting needs in other educational programs, the world of work, and/or the student's personal life.
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| | D. | Each objective should be feasible for the staff and students to accomplish.
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| | E. | Each objective should be measurable on a cumulative basis and at different stages of the student's career in the District and the measurement should be both valid and reliable.
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| | F. | Each objective should be accompanied by both the criteria by which the learning will be judged and the standards of quality which will apply.
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Reprinted by NEOLA, Inc. with permission of the Institute for Curriculum and Instruction, copyright, 1980