Getting learning objectives and success criteria right makes a huge difference to student outcomes. Matt Bromley offers practical tips, including a 10-step sequence for writing effective learning objectives and advice on the best language to use
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Before you read this article, do me a favour and draw a picture of a house. Promise me that you won’t read on until you have a sketch in front of you? 

Done? Great. In this article I’d like to explore:

 

Why we need learning objectives and success criteria 

To help me explore the why, please mark the sketch you just did. For each of the following criteria, give yourself five marks:

Award yourself a mark out of 40 and convert it to a grade: 

How did you do? My guess, and I mean no offence by this, is that you did badly. Something south of an E grade most likely. That’s certainly what happens whenever I give colleagues this task to do during training sessions.

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