A synthesis is presented of the various rationales which predict the facilitative influence of instructional objectives on learning and retention. Facets which are particularly relevant to the ...

In education–and particularly with my graduate students in higher education–students occasionally focus on the individual points of an assignment rubric instead of stepping back and looking ...

Educational Researcher (ER) is published nine times per year and is received by all members of AERA. It contains scholarly articles of general significance to the educational research community from a ...

Objectives (What the book is about) -- Why care about objectives? (Importance of being explicit) -- Where objectives come from (Origins count) -- The qualities of useful objectives (Do they ...