Aims, goals and objective purpose in curriculum development

Aims, goals and objectives

Education is purposeful. It concern with outcomes that are expressed at several levels

Aims : the most general level

Goals: reflect the purpose with outcomes in mind.

Objectives: reflect the most specific levels of

educational outcomes

Wilson(2004) defines AIMS as " general statements thatprovide direction or intent to educational action".

Orstein and Hunkins concluded that AIMS serve to:

1 Be general statements that provide shape and

direction to the more specific actions designed

to achieve future product and behavior.

2. Be starting point for ideal/inspirational vision of

the good future

Develop moral character and personal discipline.

Encourage creative and critical thinking.

Broaden scientific and technological knowledge.

Foster love of humanity.

Teach the rights and duties of citizenship

Promote respect for human right.

Strengthen ethical and spiritual values.

Aims of Elementary Education Provide knowledge and develop skills , attitudes,values

essential to personal development and necessary for living in and contributing to a developing and changing society.

Provide learning experiences which increase the child's awareness of and responsiveness to the changes in the society.

Promote and intensify knowledge, identification with and love for the nation and the people to which he belongs.

Promote work experiences which develop orientation to the world of work and prepare the learner to honest and gainful work.

Aims of Secondary Education Continue to promote the objective of elementary

education.

Discover and enhance the different aptitudes and interests of students in order to equip them with skills for productive endeavor and or to prepare them for tertiary schooling.

Aims of Tertiary Education Provide general education programs which will

promote national identity, cultural consciousness, moral integrity and spiritual vigor.

Train the nation's manpower in the skills required for national development.

Develop the professions that will provide leadership for nation.

Advance knowledge through research and apply new knowledge for improving the quality of human life and respond effectively to changing society.

Goals are statements or intent to be accomplished.

Goals are statement of purpose with some outcomes in mind.

According to Wilson(2005), goals are " the statement of educational intention which are more specific than aim.

Oliva(2001) distinguishes between curriculum goal and instructional goals.

Curriculum goal: a purpose in general terms without criteria of achievement.

Instructional curriculum: a statement of performance expected of each student

Goals can be written broadly and specifically.

Examples

To develop a skill in reading,writting ,speaking and listening

To be able to verbally and visually express a point of view

Objectives are usually specific statement of educational intention which delineate either general or specific outcomes.

Benjamin Bloom and Robert Magyar defined educational objective in two ways:

1 Explicit formulations of the ways in which

students are expected to be changed by

educative process.

2. Intent communicated by statement describing

proposed change in learner

Taba(1962) states that there are two types of objectives:

1 General objective:Those objectives that describe school- wide outcomes.

E.g. Improving students skills

2 Specific objective:

Those objectives that describe behavior to be attained in a

particular unit, a subject/course or particular programmed

E.g. cognitive, affective and psychomotor domain

Three Big Domain of Objectives

Cognitive

Affective

Psychomotor

To conclude the topic we come to know that

without Aims, Goals and Objective we are unable

to Execute any work.

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