Nonbehavioral Objectives

• Examples: Appreciate, Know, Understand

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Objections to behavioral objectives

• they only emphasize the teaching of facts at he expense of more complicated intellectual behaviors

• they place a sameness on the curriculum, assuming all must master identical material and do so in almost identical ways

• the nurture a rigidity in learning and tend to deny the unique learning outcomes of students (factory-like learning)

• they dehumanize individuals, overlook individual outcomes, and stifle creativity and spontaneity

• they negate that learning is much more than the gathering and hoarding of specific facts learned in isolation