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- General Learning Outcomes or Expectations
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- Illustrative Behavioural Terms for Stating Specific
Outcomes
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Knowledge
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- Know common terms.
- Know specific facts.
- Know methods and procedures.
- Know basic concepts.
- Know principles.
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- Define, describe, identify,
- label, list, match,
- name, outline, reproduce,
- select, state.
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Comprehension |
- Understand facts and principles.
- Interpret verbal materials.
- Interpret charts and graphs.
- Translate verbal material into formulas.
- Estimate future consequences implied in data.
- Justify methods and procedures.
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- Change, convert, defend,
- distinguish, estimate,
- explain, extend,
- generalize,give examples,
- infer, paraphrase, predict,
- rewrite, summarize.
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Application
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- Apply concepts and principles to new situations.
- Apply laws and theories to practical situations.
- Solve mathematical problems.
- Construct charts and graphs.
- Demonstrate correct usage of a method or procedure.
- Formulate a new scheme of classification for objects (or
events, or ideas).
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- Build, change, compute,
- demonstrate, discover,
- manipulate,modify,
- operate, predict,
- prepare, produce, relate,
- show, solve, use.
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Analysis
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- Recognize unstated assumptions.
- Recognize fallacies in reasoning.
- Distinguish between fact and inference.
- Evaluate the relevancy of data.
- Analyze the organizational structure of a work (art,
music, writing).
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- Break down, diagram,
- differentiate, discriminate,
- distinguish, estimate,
- identify, illustrate, infer,
- outline, point out, relate,
- select, separate,
- subdivide.
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Synthesis
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- Write a well-organized theme.
- Give a well-organized speech.
- Write a creative short story (or poem, or piece of
music).
- Propose a plan for an experiment.
- Integrate learning from different areas into a plan for
solving a problem.
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- Categorize, combine,
- compose, create, devise,
- design, explain, generate,
- modify, organize, plan,
- rearrange, reconstruct,
- relate,
- revise, rewrite, summarize,
- tell, write.
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Evaluation
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- Judge the logical sequence of written material.
- Judge the adequacy of the data used to support.
conclusions.
- Judge the value of a work (art, music, writing) by use
of internal criteria.
- Judge the value of a work (art, music, writing) by use
of external standards of excellence.
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- Appraise, compare,
- conclude, contrast, criticize,
- describe,discriminate,
- explain, justify, interpret,
- relate, summarize, support .
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