0* Robert Mager's approach:-
According to Robert Mager, Instructional objectives can be written in the form of students' Expected Terminal Behaviour. To write these objectives, the following should be kept in mind:
1. Identification of the terminal behaviour and it's meaning.
2. Description of the Important conditions under which the behaviour is expected to occur.
3. Specification of criteria of acceptable performance.
- Mager's approach is based on Bloom's classification of objectives for writing the objectives in behavioural terms. Mager has used 'Action Verbs' for writing the objectives. Through this process a student's behaviour and learning process can be written in behavioural terms and can be evaluated and measured with ease.
- In order to write objectives of special-domain in behavioural form, appropriate related subject activities are selected. Then by linking the subject - material with work activity, objectives can be written in behavioural form.
Example is presented below:
Subject- social studies. Sub-subject- Duties of citizen
Instructional objectives of Affective Domain
1. Receiving- students a citizens accept their duties.
2. Responding - students can either write or give a list of a citizens duties.
3. Valuing - students can reflect the citizens duties through their behaviour.
4. Organization - students can relate themselves with various duties.
Instructional objectives of Cognitive Domain :
1. Knowledge - Previous knowledge about citizens and their duties.
2. Comprehension - Students will be able to tell what citizen rights are in our country.
3. Application - students can compare the citizen duties with other countries as well.
4. Analysis - students will be able to analyse what reforms are needed in this matter.
5. Synthesis - students will be able to tell what is the importance of citizen duties.
