USE OF INFERRED OBJECTIVES WITH-NON-OBJECTIVES BASED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS By

An experiment was.conducted to determine the effect of, providing learners with instructional objectives prior to instruction with non'objectives-based.materials. The objectives,of these materials were inferred by the researchers.. Sixty-four university studpnts were randomly assigned to treatment groups in which they received either no objectives,.4a partial list of objectives, or a complete list of objectives for an instructional film viewed. together by all groups. Mean scores. on an 18-item criterion test, which contained oie item per objective; 'were significantly higher for subject's receiving'objectiVes than for those receiving.no objectives: Learners 'Who received partial lists of' objectives per;ormed_as well or slightly better on the test pottion for whichthey received no objectives. It was pluS concluded that proviling objectives to studnts prior to presenting instruCOlonal. materials not based on objectives facilitates student performance and that presentation of partial lists of'objectiVes did not appreciably limit the students ' attention to content for which they had received objectives. '(Author) I