THE IMPORTANCE OF AIMS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION



1.      Aims vary in degree of specificity from one course to another.
2.      Some aims are set knowing that it will be impossible or difficult to judge whether they have been achieved by each learner.
3.      A vocational course may include very specific aims related to performance in a specific career.
4.      Aim is very general and includes the concept of enjoyment which can be surveyed but not reliably quantified.

5.      Aims helps teachers to review principles, develop theory and practice with a view to the students achieving the goal of being able to evaluate performance is presumably a skill which will be required of a learner for progression in the programme of study and in employment when the programme is complete.
6.      Aims can be aggregated and grouped in courses that are structured into modules.
7.      Aims is quality assured: education processes are put in place to evaluate the achievement of aims. There are a number of ways to judge the success of an aim. If learner succeed of fail to achieve learning objectives this may indicate success in some aspects of the aims but other aims relate to things which are less easily measured.
8.      Aims generally is a process of assessment used to determining if learners have achieved objectives.
9.       Since both aim and objective are in common language synonymous with goal they are both suggestive of a form of goal-oriented education. For this reason some educational organizations use the term learning outcome since this terms is inclusive of education in which learners strive to achieve goals but extends further to include other forms of education.
 
CONCLUSION
            There are conflicting ideas about the aims or purpose of education. These disagreements have existed since early times, relative to philosophical stands, specific contexts, and historical periods. For example, the purpose of education in the new England colonies was to prepare the child to read the bible in order to be able to seek salvation.
            There are some aims of education and it includes intellectual achievements, prosaically values, economic competitiveness personal growth, socialization and culture, social change and problem solving.
            Problem solving has to do with teaching students how to learn through the development of thinking research, and study skills so that they become excellent problem solvers and creative thinkers who are capable of dealing with change.
            Prosaically values has to do with training students for responsible citizenship and prepare them for adulthood through socializing them in the norms and values society such as patriotism, obedience, honesty, cooperation.

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