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Purpose of needs analysis? ✔✔1. identify learning gaps-determine problem
2. identify instructional goal
3. identify current/desired condition
Interview VS. focus group ✔
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Purpose of needs analysis? ✔✔1. identify learning gaps-determine problem
2. identify instructional goal
3. identify current/desired condition
Interview VS. focus group ✔✔interview= 1 respondent
focus group=more than 1 respondent
components of goal statements ✔✔AKA instructional goals
1. learner(s)
2. action (what will students do?)
3. context to which skills are applied
4. tools they will need to complete skill
What is a task analysis? ✔✔AKA: goal analysis or instructional analysis
(instructional designer can see the breakdown of elements or components needed to complete a
job/task.)
Visual breakdown of goal into steps that students must complete in order to show mastery of a
skill. Either flowchart or list depending on goal type: verbal, intellectual, attitude, psychomotor
Why conduct a learner analysis? ✔✔To tailor instruction to fit the needs of specific learners: What
entry level skills do they have? What prior knowledge do they have?
Entry level skills VS prior knowledge ✔✔ELS: skills students must have mastered before the unit
begins
PK: any existing knowledge student has on topic. Measured by a pretest.
Gagne's 9 Events ✔✔1. gain attention
2. inform learners of objective
3. stimulate recall
4. present content
5. provide guidance
6. perform (practice)
7. provide feedback
8. assess
9. enhance retention & transfer to job
Factual details VS big ideas/essential questions ✔✔Factual details: questions with one answer
Essential questions: big idea questions that connect to life. Answer can be changed over time with
new insights. BROAD
Backwards Design ✔✔AKA Understanding by Design
1. identify desired results
2. determine acceptable evidence
3. plan learning activities and experiences
What are generative topics? ✔✔1. connect to subject area
2. connects prior knowledge/makes it relatable or familiar
3. engages teacher AND student
4. accessible in variety of ways/resources
Mager's 3 part performance objectives ✔✔Criterion = standard being taught
behavior = action students will be doing
condition = describes situation
What is a criterion based assessment? ✔✔Any test that measures mastery of a skill
objectivism VS constructivism ✔✔OB: teacher directed, guided, standardized tests, skill and drill,
structured learning, connected to behavior and cognitive learning, Knowledge is EXTERNAL
CON: inquiry, discovery, student centered, show understanding in a variety of ways, experiment,
research, teacher facilitates. Knowledge is INTERNAL
Behaviorism strategies ✔✔skill and drill
repetition
corrective feedback
cues
fluency
Cognitive strategies ✔✔Prior knowledge
modeling
demos
summaries
outlining
explanations
chunking
analogies
metaphors
constructivism strategies ✔✔field trips
research projects
collaborative learning
problem based
behaviorism basics ✔✔-Observable behavior is main focus
-response to stimuli
-provide feedback
-reinforcement
-objectivistic
-lower processing skills
cognitivism basics ✔✔-increased level of processing
-objectivistic
-transfers and organizes knowledge externally
-PRIOR KNOWLEDGE connection
-thinkers are organizing, reasoning, and problem solving
constuctivism basics ✔✔-retention happens with experience + prior knowledge
-learner constructs own knowledge
-self discovery
-high level of processing
-learner controlled
-teacher teaches student how to construct knowledge
-collaboration
Keller's ARCS Model? ✔✔Attention: humor, real world connection, active participation
Relevance: connect to P.K., present future relevance
Confidence: communicate objects, provide feedback, give learner control
Satisfaction: praise/reward, immediate application
Gardner's 8 intelligence's ✔✔music= musical
body=kinsthetic
word=linguistic
self=intrapersonal
people=interpersonal
math=logical mathmatical
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