Affective Learning Objectives cont'd

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enhanced teamwork and reinforce safe, reliable job performance. For example, new

employee orientation, teamwork, and supervisory and management development programs

generally include affective dimensions.

Affective objectives can be influenced by:

Role models: When the actions of peers, supervisors, and managers support

stated corporate values, employees tend to emulate and internalize these

values.

The individual's attitudes and values; those that confirm the value tend to

strengthen and sustain it: Experiences that show the value to be ineffective

can erode and, eventually, extinguish the value.

The absence of unity between stated corporate values, leader behavior, and

operating practices: This absence will undermine desired values and replace

them with ones compatible with actual practice.

Developers of affective objectives should consider appraising these items before attempting

to write affective objectives since achievement of them can be influenced more by forces

external to the training environment than achievement of cognitive or psychomotor

objectives. Instruction in the affective domain is the most difficult of the three domains and

is the most difficult to measure. Teaching in the affective domain can be by example (i.e.,

if the instructor follows the proper safety precautions when demonstrating a task, the

trainee will most likely follow the proper precautions). A method of achieving affective

goals (such as safety) in a program is to place the desired values in the standards of the

performance objectives. The course designers should incorporate the affective domain with

all learning objectives/lessons wherever possible to continually emphasize their importance

to effective and reliable job performance.

Example:

Given all necessary tools, materials, and the procedure, disassemble an

Air Joy WG09 air compressor in accordance with the procedure and all

relevant site safety precautions.

One way of classifying affective objectives is to group them into four levels based on

strength of commitment. The categories progress from simple awareness to overt