Question

Mark Vincenzo, director of the Outpatient Clinics at Lakeview Medical Center, is meeting with the members of the staff development team in the hope of gaining approval for a new class on writing behavioral objectives. “Teaching is such an important part of what we do in the clinics that it is vital that all staff are able to develop and implement well-written teaching plans.” He has found that many of the staff need more detailed instruction than what currently exists in the new staff orientation, particularly in the area of constructing clear, concise, and realistic behavioral objectives. “We can’t measure and document the outcomes of our teaching very well if the staff aren’t writing good behavioral objectives to guide their patient teaching.”

You have been asked to develop two 1-hour classes on writing behavioral objectives that will be offered to all new and current employees of the Lakeview Medical Center. The first class will cover basic information about how to formulate good objective statements. During the second class, participants will apply what they have learned by writing objectives based on case scenarios and enter them into sample teaching plans in the electronic medical record.

1.

What is the goal of your new two-class program on behavioral objectives?

2.

What is one objective and the related subobjectives for the first class?

3.

What is one behavioral objective for the second class from each of the following domains: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor?

4.

How would you classify the behavioral objectives written in question 3 according to the level of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor behavior identified?

Answer 1

1.What is the goal of your new two-class program on behavioral objectives?

• The goal of the first-class program is that the student has to understand the formation of good Behavioral objectives after the training.
• The Goal of the second-class programme is that the student was able to formulate good behavioral objectives for teaching's plan.

2. What is one objective and the related sub-objectives for the first class?

• Behavioral objective for the first-class: Trainee should able to teach sample teaching plan for the new staff.
• Sub-objective for the first-class: Trainee should able to use educational techniques for better understanding of the new staff.

3. What is one behavioral objective for the second class from each of the following domains: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor?

• Cognitive: The staff will gain knowledge of developing and formulating of a behavioral objective.
• Affective: The staff will take responsibility for formulating of behavioral objective based on the clinical situation.
• Psychomotor: The staff should apply the learning things into action.

4. How would you classify the behavioral objectives written in question 3 according to the level of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor behavior identified?

According to the level of cognitive, the behavioral objectives are classified into

• Knowledge
• Application
• Analysis

According to the level of the affective domain, the behavioral objective is classified into

• Organizing
• Responding
• Valuing

According to the level of Psychomotor, the behavioral objectives are classified into

• Perception
• Adaptation
• Response
• Mechanism