← All toolsPaste your objectives and see which of them could actually be assessed. It finds the verbs that name a state of mind rather than a behavior, explains why each one cannot be tested, and offers observable verbs that usually mean the same thing. It also notes what is missing: the condition, the standard, and objectives that are really two.
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What this does
Reads each objective, finds the verb it turns on, and says whether anybody could watch a learner do it. Where the verb names a state of mind, it explains why and offers observable verbs that usually carry the same intent.
The only question that really matters
Not which level of Bloom the verb sits at. Whether it is observable. “Understand the policy” and “state the three conditions the policy requires” describe the same intent, and only one of them can be taught to, assessed, or defended in a review. Understand is the most common verb in learning objectives and the least useful one, and everything else this reports is secondary to that.
Why a missing standard is only a note
The ABCD frame asks for an audience, a behavior, a condition and a degree. Only the behavior is genuinely required. Leaving out the condition is frequently right, and objectives that specify a standard for its own sake read like paperwork. They are reported as absent rather than as faults, because a checker that flags four things on every line gets ignored.
What it will not do
It cannot tell you whether the objective is worth having. An objective can be perfectly measurable and still describe something nobody needs to do, which is a question for the Does This Need To Be A Course? check rather than this one. The rewrites it offers are a starting point: choosing between explain and apply is a decision about what the learner actually needs to do, and no tool can make it.