The place where learning objectives often fall short is the verb, the action that students will do to demonstrate their learning. Many faculty members start their verb search with "Bloom's Taxonomy".

Bloom’s revised taxonomy 1 of educational objectives can help you choose verbs that are appropriate to the level of achievement and performance you desire. Download Action Words by Bloom's Taxonomy ...

There are many lists of appropriate verbs available, mostly based on Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Objectives (1956) which identified 6 levels of the 'cognitive domain', each subsuming the ...

and many assessment coordinators also rely on Bloom's Taxonomy of Action Verbs to develop the language of their learning outcomes. It is important to realize that an SLO is distinct from a course ...