Action Verbs for Stating Learning Objectives

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Creative
Behaviors

Critical
Thinking Skills

General
Problem Solving

Attitudes or Values

Laboratory
Behaviors

Alter

Analyze

Ascertain

Accept

Apply

Ask

Appraise

Choose

Adopt

Calibrate

Change

Combine

Classify

Advocate

Compute

Compose

Compare

Collect

Approve

Conduct

Create

Conclude

Define

Care

Connect

Design

Contrast

Describe

Challenge

Convert

Develop

Criticize

Detect

Choose

Decrease

Generalize

Decide

Determine

Cooperate

Demonstrate

Label

Deduce

Differentiate

Defend

Dissect

Listen

Derive

Discriminate

Dispute

Grow

Modify

Determine

Distinguish

Endorse

Increase

Paraphrase

Diagnose

Estimate

Express

Insert

Predict

Discover

Identify

Feel

Lengthen

Rearrange

Evaluate

Indicate

Judge

Limit

Recombine

Explain

Investigate

Justify

Manipulate

Reconstruct

Extrapolate

Isolate

Persuade

Measure

Regroup

Formulate

List

Question

Operate

Rename

Generate

Locate

Reflect

Plant

Reorder

Induce

Match

Resolve

Prepare

Reorganize

Infer

Omit

Select

Remove

Rephrase

Interpret

Order

 

Replace

Restate

Plan

Pick

 

Report

Restructure

Recognize

Place

 

Reset

Revise

Relate

Point

 

Set

Rewrite

Review

Predict

 

Specify

Simplify

Structure

Select

 

Time

Use

Substitute

Separate

 

Transfer

Vary

Translate

Synthesize

 

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