Deck 9: Planning to Achieve Goals, Aims, Objectives, Outcomes and Standards

Question 1

In the United States, what is required of a school that is designated as failing?

Answer 1

If a school is designated as failing it is required to provide special tutoring for students. Parents have the right to transfer their children to other schools.

Question 2

Objectives that deal with feeling, emotion, appreciation and valuing are classified as:

A) cognitive.
B) affective.
C) social.
D) psychomotor.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following is a goal?

A) Develop awareness of road safety for pedestrians and cyclists.
B) Explain the difference between weight and mass.
C) Undertake an investigation of the properties of a magnet.
D) List the pros and cons of wearing a bicycle helmet.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What is the relationship between aims, goals, teaching and learning? Describe how you would use aims and goals in your teaching.

Question 5

When considering the important components of a behavioural objective which of the following is not a consideration?

A) Criteria of acceptable performance.
B) Conditions of performance.
C) Evidence of achievement.
D) Teaching strategy.

Question 6

In Benjamin Bloom's (1956) six basic objectives for the cognitive domain, objectives that ask students to produce something new by combining pieces or elements fit within the:

A) application domain.
B) comprehension domain.
C) evaluation domain.
D) synthesis domain.

Question 7

Is this statement True or False? 'Bloom's Taxonomy concentrates on categorising objectives and also provides guidance about how to translate them into practice.'

Question 8

Willis and Kissane (1997) define outcome statements as 'broad descriptions of student …':

A) behaviours.
B) knowledge.
C) skills.
D) competencies.

Question 9

When used as a criteria for behavioural objectives, 'feasibility' means the objectives should be:

A) consistent with each other.
B) relevant and suitable for the students.
C) reflective of the teacher's intentions.
D) attainable by all students.

Question 10

According to Spady (1993), outcomes-based education (OBE) means focusing and organising a school's entire program and instructional efforts around the clearly defined outcomes we want all students to demonstrate:

A) while they are at school.
B) when they leave school.
C) in the workforce.
D) in their personal lives.

Question 11

Why are some teachers concerned about results of teaching being made public on the My School website?

Question 12

Goals and aims are:

A) descriptions of what students should learn.
B) overview statements about curriculum.
C) statements of the purposes of schooling or a program.
D) general directions for pedagogical approaches.

Question 13

An aim specified in The Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics (NCB, 2990b) is 'to educate students to be …, interpreting the world mathematically and using mathematics to help form their predictions and decisions about personal and financial priorities'. The missing words are:

A) active, thinking citizens.
B) social scientists.
C) mathematical thinkers.
D) creative problem-solvers.

Question 14

What are two criticisms that have been made of outcomes-based education (OBE)?

Question 15

In Wiggins and McTighe's (2005) taxonomy 'Facets of Understanding', students who show they can produce critical and insightful points of view fit in the category of:

A) have self-knowledge.
B) can interpret.
C) have perspective.
D) can explain.

Question 16

Which of the following is a psychomotor objective?

A) Develop a positive attitude to sun safety.
B) Bounce and catch a ball five times.
C) Recall the colours of the rainbow.
D) Classify objects on the basis of colour.

Question 17

Which of the following is not a typical characteristic of objectives?

A) Specific.
B) Focused on teaching.
C) Measurable.
D) Description of student behaviour.

Question 18

Schools are designated as failing in the United States on the basis of:

A) feedback from yearly parental surveys.
B) reports based on yearly inspections by external evaluators.
C) students' performance on standardised tests.
D) enrolments falling below a designated level.

Question 19

An incorrect statement about goals is:

A) students should have the opportunity to discuss goals.
B) goals can be modified during teaching.
C) goals make expectations clear to students.
D) goals address how teachers would engage students to achieve expectations.

Question 20

Use Mager's (1997) three important components of behavioural objectives to write an objective which contains all three.

Question 21

Discuss the implications for schools of a focus on educational outcomes in light of issues and questions raised by theorists in Chapter 9.

Question 22

In the United States standards, which of the following does not occur?

A) Standards are established by bureaucrats.
B) Standards are established for subject areas.
C) Standards are established for reasoning skills
D) Standardised tests are used with all students.