Teaching Prepared by Caroline W. Ndirangu

Examples
1)   Identify all the parts of a mammalian digestive system
2)   Draw the map of Africa showing all the countries and their capital 
cities
The words identify, draw ,describe are action words or verbs that can be observed 
and recorded. The terms that learning experience is expected to produce.
Step 3
List down 10 other verbs or action words used in formulating objectives.
Hint
 you can go back to reading 1 on Blooms Taxonomy where sample verbs 
have been listed down for the different levels.
CAUTION AVOID
 using words that are open to many interpretations such as: To 
know, understand, grasp, believe, enjoy e.t.c at this level just to mention a few.
Test conditions
The tests conditions component of a learning activity describes the situation in 
which the students will be required to demonstrate the terminal behaviour. There 
are 3 general conditions that affect student’s performance during a task or test. 
These include the availability of reference books, the time allocated, resource/tools 
available for the use and how the information will be presented during the testing 
period or teaching period.
For example to be able to identify the mammalian digestive system a chart of 
the digestive system or a specimen like a rat that can be dissected to expose these 
organs are provided for the learners during the lesson.
Identify the different countries of Africa from the map provided
Identify all the different structures of the digestive system from a given mammal