Education can have objectives {educational objective} {objective, educational} about mental behavior, physical behavior, or attitudes. Objectives include activity or behavior, conditions, required information, required skills, and required skill level. For example, memorizing something is not an objective, but using memorized information to solve problem type is an objective.
objective sections: activity or behavior
Objectives are behaviors, activities, and problems, related to life and experience. Knowing subject is not behavior and is not an objective.
objective sections: conditions
Objectives state conditions.
objective sections: required information
Objectives can require vocabulary and materials. Objectives can require process knowledge.
objective sections: required skills
Objectives can require skills, habits, strength, or health.
objective sections: skill level
People master objectives at satisfactory level, perhaps with success rate 75%.
levels
Objectives have hierarchy, with simple and fundamental ones at bottom, to facilitate structured learning. All objectives have subjects.
types
Cognitive objectives involve facts, definitions, comprehension, applications, analyses, syntheses, evaluations, and judgments.
Psychomotor objectives involve perceiving situations, readying self for action, planning actions, following instructions, performing instructions, reacting to situations appropriately, adjusting responses after situation changes, and creating new behavior patterns based on themes.
Affective objectives involve paying attention, becoming aware, selecting, reacting to stimulus, selecting reaction, participating, desiring, committing, creating attitudes, comparing or integrating several values, creating life-style, creating value system, maturing, self-actualizing, and building self-confidence [Bloom and Krathwohl, 1956] [Krathwohl et al., 1964].
requirements
Curricula have required objectives. Students can select additional objectives, such as career objectives.
art subjects
Subjects are beauty, awe, significance, causes, creativity, and experiences. Topics are painting, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, photography, film, TV, radio, and theater.
biology subjects
Subjects are evolution, ecology, genetics, medicine, zoology, botany, classification, biochemistry, and internal medicine.
business subjects
Subjects are manufacturing, engineering, administration, personnel, finance, advertising, marketing, and accounting.
computer subjects
Subjects are word processing, spreadsheet, database, files, and directories.
economics subjects
Subjects are economic systems, international trade, supply and demand, growth, inflation, productivity, margin, multiplier, and interest. Students understand money, checking, savings, and investment. Students learn to be smart consumers. Students understand insurance.
education subjects
Subjects are evidence, proof, theories, models, experimentation, formal systems, operations, systems, education, problem solving, assumptions, speculation, and similarities in structures, functions, and models.
geography subjects
Subjects are continents, countries, cities, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans.
history subjects
Subjects are all eras and civilizations, inventions, people, arts, battles, and leaders.
language subjects
Subjects are linguistics, communications, semantics, English, criticism, literature, symbol systems, metaphor, simile, analogy, fact, opinion, inference, judgment, emotion, command, persuasion, outlining, language uses, instructions, history, function, structure, induction, deduction, propaganda, questions, answers, comparison, contrast, chronological order, point-by-point analogy, process steps, illustration, observation, description, classification, discrimination, controversy, idea hierarchies, note-taking skills, library skills, maps, drawing, classic literature, topic sentences, and vocabulary.
References include title, author, publisher, location, date, and page number.
Writing forms are letters and reports. Writing involves analysis, has style, has format, has context, and uses medium. Writing balances abstraction and concreteness. Writing has mood, purpose, and attitude. Genres are novel, play, story, or poem. Mode is romantic, tragic, comic, ironic, or melodramatic. Conflict is between characters. Time and place are setting. Word-difficulty level is diction. Point of view is person.
Work can have formal or informal style. Work can have irony of structure or attitude. Work can use symbolism of sex or power. Work has plot. Work has theme.
law subjects
Subjects are basic, Roman, continental, English, and American law.
mathematics subjects
Subjects are game theory, probability, statistics, calculus, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and logic. Students know function and relation types, including trigonometric, power, and exponential functions. Problem types are ratio, proportion, percent, roots, exponents, logarithms, motion, time, work, interest, length, perimeter, area, volume, fraction conversion, fraction adding, fraction multiplying, vector addition, vector multiplication, and unit conversion. Understand checking and savings accounts, cooking, and budgeting. Know symmetry types, congruence, similar figures, and geometric theorems. Know about accuracy, precision, and units. Read charts, graphs, and tables. Be able to measure.
philosophy subjects
Subjects are Eastern philosophy, Western philosophy, epistemology, aesthetics, metaphysics, politics, ethics, values, morals, existence, life, knowledge, justice, equality, freedom, conservation, ecology, honor, mercy, courage, loyalty, virtue, tragedy, discipline, love, conformity, individuality, compromise, principles, generalization, discrimination, optimism, pessimism, belief, skepticism, action, contemplation, classicism, romanticism, progress, tradition, humans, nature, authority, independence, conformity, independence, belief, faith, happiness, duty, materialism, idealism, criticism, reasoning, consistency, and completeness.
politics subjects
Subjects are voting, juries, taxes, laws, civilization, state, democracy, aristocracy, monarchy, totalitarianism, dictatorship, leadership, ideology, power, prestige, status, hunger, poverty, disease, catastrophe, violence, citizen rights, responsibilities, change, change rate, change causes, progress causes, war, strategy, future, literacy, rights, duties, pollution, resources, wealth, growth, welfare, inflation, and urban affairs.
practical affairs subjects
Subjects are general laws, checking, savings, credit card, home insurance, car insurance, life insurance, death, driving laws, safety, cooking, clothes, appliances, hardware, cars, sports, games, rent, buy, reproduction, childcare, drugs, diseases, health, nutrition, safety, banking, law, family life, children, first aid, CPR, consumerism, and health.
psychology subjects
Subjects are personality, personal feelings, conscious states, "peak" experiences, maturation, mental development, curiosity, habits, variety, pleasures, pains, feelings, moods, wonder, humor, intuition, discovery, emotions, sexuality, physical development, self, life style, roles, models, goals, service to others, mental control mechanisms, sacrifice, devotion, charm, charisma, grace, elegance, friendship, dependency, independence, love, approval, physical contact, children, humility, biofeedback, drugs, meditation, sleep, ecstasy, creativity, brainstorming, synectics, design parameter search, appearance, performance, quality, size, functions, substitutes, principles, value, important parts, important activities, features, weight, shape, texture, imagination, intuition, visualization, insight, human feelings, emotions, motivations, goals, human concerns and interests, human reactions to change and crises, death, war, marriage, divorce, deal with everything non-violently, feelings, laughing, intuition, wonder, mystery, pleasure, pain, curiosity, ecstasy, love, hate, anger, sadness, how people mature, and habits.
reasoning subjects
Students can estimate answers, know problem solving steps, use them on problems, evaluate other solutions, use deductive reasoning, use inductive reasoning, make model, simulate situation, use quantitative analysis, and make decision. Subjects are thinking problems, paradoxes, contradictions, generalization, and principles.
religion subjects
Subjects are theology, gods, life after death, reincarnation, extrasensory perception, and mythology.
science subjects
Subjects are principles, applications, scientific method, hypothesis formation, observation, statistics, scientific attitudes, laboratory skills, record keeping, patience, scientific-article writing, induction, deduction, simplicity, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and earth science. Scientific attitudes are objectivity, need for truth, idea tolerance, openness to criticism, desire to publish results for confirmation and use, no ideology, curiosity, patience, carefulness, desire to serve, desire to help others, thought about work consequences, cooperation with others rather than confrontation or competition, internationalism, social-class unimportance, humbleness, thought in terms of systems and interrelations, and broad knowledge.
sociology subjects
Subjects are social responsibility, famous lives, patriarchy, matriarchy, philosopher, athlete, soldier, aristocrat, artist, scientist, engineer, monk, minister, politician, playboy, partygoer, volunteer, artisan, group types, communication patterns, health, food, reproduction, marriage, children, death, socialization, self-fulfillment, systems, rules, roles, rights, main words, evolution, symbols, effects, presumptions, alternatives, necessity, relations to other systems, classes, specialization, personal vs. group rights, change, conservation, travel, anthropology, cultures, human-society structures, and society and people change causes.
technology subjects
Subjects are how things work and computers.
writing subjects
Subjects are sentence types, paragraph types, report types, audiences, spelling, and grammar. Sentence types are simple, complex, and compound statements, questions, commands, and exclamations. Paragraph types are narrative, process, comparison, contrast, illustration, description, deduction, and induction. Report types are letters, three-point papers, summaries, resumes, and applications.
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