If you update a learning objective, which components should be updated to maintain validity?

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When you revise what students are expected to learn and do, all parts of the learning system need to line up with that change. The curriculum defines the content and experiences that support the objective, instruction provides the teaching methods and activities to help students reach it, and assessment measures whether students have achieved the objective. If you update the objective but leave the curriculum unchanged, you may be teaching content that no longer fully supports the goal. If the instruction isn’t updated, students might not receive the practice or approaches needed to meet the new expectation. If the assessment isn’t updated, the way you measure outcomes may no longer reflect what was intended to be learned, compromising validity. Updating the objective thus requires updating curriculum, instruction, and assessment to keep everything aligned and valid.