Discuss the importance of setting objectives in curriculum designing. give a comprehensive answer

Learning
objectives are no different than goals, because they serve four main purposes:

1. to describe the purpose of an activity (or intervention)


2. to establish the desired result
3. to identify the methodology to be
   used to get there
4. to determine how success will be measured

This being said, learning objectives are to be stated quite specifically so
that they can be the most useful at directing the instructor as to what course of action to
take. Not all objectives stem from the same source. In fact, any experienced educator can tell
you that the academic, or learning, objective is only one
third of the complete goal. This is because there are three kinds of
objectives in academia:

1. the learning
   objective- establishes what the students are going learn by the end of
   the lesson. It is all based on cognitive and developmental ability.


2. behavioral (doing) objectives- will
   determine what skills and abilities the teacher wants the students to develop, or master, by the
   end of the lesson.
3. affective/schematic
   objectives- will list the essential questions and main lessons that
   the teacher would want the students to think about and relate to themselves as individuals.
   

There is something even more important to consider when it comes
to objectives: they are not created to determine whether a student can or cannot "do"
something. Instead, they are created to establish what additional interventions need to be
considered for the students to develop to the point of working at an independent level of
mastery. This is why we have two sub-sections of learning objectives

Mastery objectives are the less
demanding tasks that should be covered before the next unit. For example, a student cannot move
on to learn division if they cannot master multiplication. In theory they CAN, but imagine how
difficult it would be to teach a process that is interdependent of another until at least one of
them is mastered.

The second type is the
developmental objective, which could be
applied to something more complex and extensive, such as (for example), the writing process.
Since the writing process is a year-long succession of trials, errors, crafting, adding, and
editing, teachers cannot just pretend to have students become master writers after teaching one
unit. Thus, developmental objectives are ongoing goals to motivate students to continue to
improve.

Conclusively, the importance of setting the PROPER objectives in
curriculum designing is that they provide guidance, a vision, a mission, a method, and a goal.
It is a comprehensive plan of action that, when applied as planned, will undoubtedly result in
great success.