Action+Verbs

The Importance Of A High Quality Verb
The verb determines the nature and power of the outcome, the learning experience (the behavioral objective). The verb must connect the learning, the teaching and the assessment, therefore: 1. The students must do the verb. 2. The teacher has to teach the verb. 3. The assessment has to perfectly manifest the verb.

The following are useful demonstration verbs that determine and reflect the nature of culminating role performances and enabling competencies.

Functional Role Performances:

 * Accommodate || Act || Adapt || Anticipate ||
 * Avoid || Calculate || Compute || Execute ||
 * Handle || Help || Indicate || Perform ||
 * Operate || Serve || Use || Utilize ||

Investigative Role Performances:

 * Analyze || Anticipate || Argue || Ask ||
 * Criticize || Derive || Discover || Examine ||
 * Explore || Inquire || Inspect || Investigate ||
 * Prioritize || Question || Scrutinize || Search ||
 * Solve || Survey || Verify ||  ||

Generative Role Performances:

 * Cause || Construct || Create || Design ||
 * Develop || Devise || Engender || Establish ||
 * Evoke || Fashion || Form || Inaugurate ||
 * Induce || Innovate || Invent || Make ||
 * Modify || Organize || Produce || Propose ||
 * Restructure || Revise ||  ||   ||

Coordinative Role Performances:

 * Arrange || Coordinate || Decide || Direct ||
 * Establish || Facilitate || Harmonize || Implement ||
 * Intercede || Intervene || Lead || Manage ||
 * Mesh || Organize || Supervise || Systematize ||

Collaborative Role Performances:

 * Accommodate || Assist || Contribute || Encourage ||
 * Facilitate || Guide || Help || Offer ||
 * Persuade || Resolve || Share || Steer ||
 * Support || Unit ||  ||   ||

Consultative Role Perfromances:

 * Advise || Coach || Counsel || Demonstrate ||
 * Educate || Guide || Mentor || Model ||
 * Negotiate || Resolve || Suggest || Teach ||

Comprehension Competencies (Knowledge Recall):

 * Collect || Define || Describe || Gather ||
 * Identify || Label || List || Locate ||
 * Name || Recognize || Select || State ||

Comprehension Competencies (Understanding):

 * Amplify || Chart || Clarify || Compare ||
 * Define || Describe || Distinguish || Expand ||
 * Explain || Generalize || Graph || Group ||
 * Illustrate || Infer || Interpret || Match ||
 * Order || Outline || Paraphrase || Rank ||
 * Restate || Select || Sort || Summarize ||

Analytical Reasoning Competencies (Analysis):

 * Assess || Categorize || Classify || Compare ||
 * Contrast || Decipher || Deduce || Delineate ||
 * Detect || Devise || Diagnose || Differentiate ||
 * Distinguish || Estimate || Explain || Generalize ||
 * Hypothesize || Induce || Infer || Interpret ||
 * Predict || Relate || Solve ||  ||

Evaluative Competencies (Evaluation):

 * Appraise || Assess || Critique || Decide ||
 * Deduce || Determine || Establish || Estimate ||
 * Evaluate || Gauge || Judge || Justify ||
 * Prioritize || Recommend || Solve || Validate ||

Applied Synthesis Competencies:

 * Amplify || Combine || Compose || Construct ||
 * Create || Design || Devise || Develop ||
 * Elaborate || Extend || Formulate || Incorporate ||
 * Innovate || Institute || Integrate || Invent ||
 * Organize || Plan || Predict || Produce ||
 * Revise || Structure ||  ||   ||

Motivational Competencies:

 * Compete || Endure || Engage || Inaugurate ||
 * Initiate || Instigate || Originate || Persevere ||
 * Persist || Pursue || Resist ||  ||

Rational Competencies:

 * Accept || Agree || Allow || Argue ||
 * Associate || Confront || Connect || Cooperate ||
 * Defend || Demand || Depend || Encourage ||
 * Engage || Inspire || Praise || Protect ||

Communicative Competencies:

 * Argue || Clarify || Convey || Correspond ||
 * Depict || Demonstrate || Describe || Detail ||
 * Disclose || Discuss || Elaborate || Exhibit ||
 * Explain || Express || Imitate || Indicate ||
 * Manifest || Persuade || Portray || Recite ||
 * Recount || Relate || Respond || Reveal ||
 * Show || State || Write ||  ||