Week 6- Domains of Learning and Writing Learning Objectives

This week, discussion on how to conduct a task and instructional analysis was conducted.

In Instructional Design, it is under both the frameworks of Analysis-Evaluation and Evaluation-Design

3 Domains of Learning was introduced:

Cognitive (knowing and thinking) to increase learners knowledge

Affective (feelings and attitude) to change learners attitude

Psychomotor (doing) to increase learners physical skills

We were also taught how to write Behavioral / Performance Learning Objectives. They are split up into ABCD, namely:

Audience, Behaviour, Condition and Degree.

Action verbs that are provided for Learning Objectives include:

state, define, name, write, recall, recognise, list, label, reproduce, identify (if you want them to know)

appreciate, select, indicate, illustrate, represent, formulate, explain, classify, comprehend (if you want them to comprehend)

and so forth, list in this website: http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/resources/reflection/table.html

Verbs like know, comprehend and understand are not allowed in the Blooms Taxonomy. As they are only allowed in goals.

An example provided of the Learning Objectives was:

Using the Simpson’s formula (condition), the Quantity Surveyor (audience) can estimate (behaviour) the volume of granite stock with 95% accuracy (degree).

For affective learning, 4 types of attitudinal outcomes were covered:

Levels of learning:
Receiving (or Attending)
Responding
Valuing
Organisation
Characterization by a Value Complex

Action verbs suitable for attitudinal outcomes are namely: Emphasize,Encourage, Confront,Celebrate,Repent,Resolve

Action verbs for psychomotor outcomes are, for example : Spread, Skip,Turn,Rotate,Kick,Act,Row