The responding level of the affective domain is demonstrated by the expression of interest, enjoyment, opinion or attitudes. There is not necessarily a commitment to the response.
Valuing is the third level of the affective domain. Students begin to show consistency in and commitment to beliefs, values, and attitudes. A value is preferred and acted upon, although the relation ship among values is not yet established.
We will not go back to smoking cigarettes after we finish our smoking cessation program.
Because of my course in women’s studies, I will actively protest against the use of sexist language in my other courses.
At the end of this safety training program, we will be much more conscientious about following the rules and regulations in the workplace.
When our teaching includes affective objectives, we usually hope that students will at least reach this valuing level. We want people to act on their changed values or beliefs.
At the fourth level, organization, learners organize values, beliefs, and attitudes into a system, determine the interrelationships among them, and develop priorities. Rather than demonstrating commitment to isolated values, students display a more complex value as a guiding principle. He suggests that sets of values are organized into beliefs, so although some of the details of his taxonomy are at odds with the original system used by Kartwohl et al. (1964) the basic concept is similar.
We will study several views of the ethics of social worker and patient interactions and formulate a personal set of guidelines.
I will make a list of the things I value about teaching, put those items in order of importance to me, and write a short statement as to my philosophy of practice.
You will write an article for the local newspaper on the issue of conservation of resources versus technological advancement.