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TERMINAL OBJECTIVE [1 record]

Record 1 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
DEF

... What you want your students to know or be able to do at the end of the lesson.

CONT

Learning objectives. ... For training in a specific job, [the process of deriving objectives (determining what the objectives should be) ] has several stages. [In the final stage,] a hierarchy of objectives is organized. This organization includes terminal objectives, representing tasks as meaningful units of behavior; general objectives, describing several terminal objectives or other general objectives; and enabling objectives, representing the knowledge and skills which must be learned in order to master the terminal objectives (Ammerman & Melching 1966).

CONT

Many instructional designers ... recommend a more complete elaboration of very specific objectives for both the end of a lesson (terminal objectives) and intermediate points during the lesson (intermediate or enabling objectives).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
DEF

Objectif qui exprime les changements utiles qui doivent survenir chez le sujet et dont la présence est appréciable après une démarche d'apprentissage.

CONT

L'objectif spécifique peut [...] être ramené à un objectif terminal, il est alors énoncé en terme de but final : «à la fin de cette partie de la session, le participant doit avoir appris à rédiger un procès-verbal selon le modèle du cahier».

Spanish

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