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Objectives play a role in teaching and evaluating students in varied settings
in nursing. They provide guidelines for student learning and instruction and
serve as a basis for evaluating learning. The objectives represent the outcomes
of learning; these outcomes may include the acquisition of knowledge, development
of values, and performance of psychomotor and technological skills. Evaluation
serves to determine the extent of the student’s learning in relation to these
outcomes. Each of the domains of learning has its own classification or taxonomic
system, which is of value in gearing testing and evaluation to the level of learning
anticipated from the instruction. While different methods have been proposed
for developing test items and other evaluation strategies, the important principle
is that they relate to the learning outcomes.
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