Educational Objectives Help or Hindrance?

The article discusses the impact of educational objectives on the development of education in the U.S. The manuscript offers a broad-based critique of a set of issues with which the University of Chicago Department of Education had been intimately identified the importance of clarity and specificity of behavioral outcomes in the formulation of educational objectives. Eisner suggests that curriculum construction may be more an art than a science. Moreover, educational objectives need to be clearly specified to provide the goals toward which curriculum is aimed, to facilitate the selection and organization of content and to make it possible to evaluate the outcomes of the curriculum.