When learning objectives were presented under Choosing the Right Activities, one of the rules was to use action verbs. While the examples did contain an action verb, most of them were preceeded by a linking verb phrase. "Be able to" and "Have the ability to" make the objectives passive and don't add any additional meaning. Deleting phrases like these puts the emphasis on the action verb contained in the objective. I'll reiterate one of the objectives to illustrate my point.
"The student will be able to use Microsoft Project to document and track their projects" becomes: "The student will use… >>>
