ABSTRACT
Determining goals is an essential part of instructional design and development. Defining specific instructional objectives is also more often than not a critically important consideration. This chapter explains the differences between instructional goals and instructional objectives and examines a variety of approaches used to define and develop them. Approaches taken by a number of instructional design experts are presented and explained. Common methods of describing learning outcomes are presented, as are methods of evaluating the success of setting goals and objective specifications.
