Welcome back to step three, lesson two of build winning courses, creating three part objectives. a three part objective talks about how you're going to measure something, what you're measuring, and the passing score for it. Frankly, after all the years I've been doing this, I seldom do a formal three part objective. However, learning to do them and using them until I got familiar with the process was extremely helpful. So part one in any three part objective is given. Given a tool given a quiz, given a case given a description given something, what are you going to use to test people, followed by part two, which is what you will measure, the student will be able to do what to change a tire to create an online course.
Part Two of a three part objective is what the learner is going to be able to do. And then Part Three is the passing score. You know the criteria for success and you know how you're going to test it. So now what is that criteria for a passing score? Is it 75%? If it's 80%, it should be at least 80% 100% might be too much and 70% is not enough.
Generally, all my clients want 80%. So here's what a three step objective sounds like, given a case study and accompanying quiz, learners will be able to perform a basic needs assessment as defined in this training with 80% accuracy. What does that tell you? It tells you that I know what it is I want you to be able to do. It tells you that I'm going to tell you how to do that. And it tells you that I'm going to assess you just on what I've taught you not on things, they're not in this course.
You're probably ready to start writing those objectives, aren't you? Well, it's not quite time. It is time. However, to go back to the objectives that you've been really thinking about. Look at your needs analysis, look at your learner analysis, look at what you want people to be able to do, and decide if you're still on track with what you're asking folks to commit to and what you're willing to deliver. Nobody wants a course that doesn't deliver what it promises.
This is your agreement with the learner when you charge them money for what you're doing. So go back, spend some time looking at those things and get ready to move forward to review them in steps three and four before you actually start writing some objectives.