Training Design Basics, 2nd Edition

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The Basic Instructional Objective

What’s Inside This Chapter

This chapter covers the latter stages in the analysis phase: translating the needs identified into instructional objectives with observable and measurable goals for the training program, and writing evaluation materials like tests to assess the extent to which the program achieved its goals. (Yes, you write the tests before developing course materials.) Specifically, this chapter addresses:

•  The basic value of objectives and evaluations

•  The basics of establishing objectives, such ...