Performance Standards, Competencies, and Learning Targets in Mathematics
Performance Standards, Competencies, and Learning Targets in Mathematics
• Example:
• Learning objective: “Students will be able to describe the scientific methods
and provide examples of its application.
• Learning target: “I want students to understand/learn/know the scientific
method.”
• Remembering
• To find or remember information
• Memorizing information
• Comprehension
• To understand the situation and restate
in your own words, paraphrasing,
translating, summarizing
• Application
• To use information to solve problems,
to transfer abstract or theoretical ideas
to actual situations, and identify
connections and relationships.
• Analysis
• To take information apart, identifying
components, determining arrangement,
logic and semantics.
• Synthesis
• To create new ideas or things
• Combining information to form a
unique product
• Requires creativity and originality
• Evaluation
• To make judgments about knowledge
• To make decisions and support views
• Requires understanding of values