Basics of Instructional Systems Development—Instructional Systems Development

Evaluation Tasks

For every objective (terminal or enabling) there should be a corresponding evaluation task. Some are formal, others are informal. Formal evaluation tasks include taking tests or quizzes and writing an essay. Informal evaluation tasks might include having a learner describe a given concept or principle or state a rule in mathematics or grammar.

Objectives should closely match evaluation tasks in two important areas: behavior and condition. When these elements match, an objective is said to have performance agreement. The performance agreement principle ensures consistency between what we expect of learners in the objective and what we require them to do in an evaluation.

In our objective for the Internet class, we call for the ...