Conducting a goal analysis

Conducting A Goal Analysis

Keyauna MaddoxSpring 2014

An instructional analysis is a set of procedures applied to an instructional goal, result in the identification of the relevant steps for performing a goal and the subordinate skills required for a student to achieve goal. Gagne’s domains of learning

Verbal information Intellectual skills Psychomotor skills Attitudes Cognitive strategies

INTRODUCTION

Domains of Learning

Step 1 Classify the goal statement according to the kind of learning that will occur goal analysis fundamental steps.

Step 2 Identify and sequence the major step required

to perform the goal.

DESCRIPTION

The task for the learner is to store the information in memory during the instruction and remember it for the test.

CONCEPT

Means expertise in certain field defined as skills that require the learner to do some unique cognitive activity Classified in 4 common types:

Discrimination Forming concepts Applying rules Solving problems

Intellectual Skills

First sample goals: Given a list of cities, name

the state of which each is the capital

Only one answer for each question and only one basic way to ask question.

No symbolic manipulation No problem solving or rule

applying

Require the learner to provide specific responses to relatively specific question

Can be spotted by the types of verbs that are used e.g: state or list provide specific information or describe something

Verbal Information

Involves the coordination of mental and physical activity Characterized by learners executing physical actions, with or

without equipment, to achieve specific results For purposes of instructional analysis, if the learner must learn to

perform new, valuable motor skills or performance depends on the skillful execution of a physical skill

Setting up and operating a digital video camera Equipment must be manipulated in a very specific way to

successfully produce a quality video image

Psychomotor Skill

Attitudes are described as the tendency to make particular choices or decision.

Instructional goals that focus on attitude can be viewed as influencing learners to choose.

An acquired internal state that influence the choice of personal action toward some class of things, persons or events.

Represent intrinsically motivated choices people make. Long-term goal.

Attitude

The metaprocesses that we use to manage our thinking about things and manage our own learning.

Some strategies are as straight forward as mentally repeating the name of new acquaintances several times while visualizing their faces.

A more complex cognitive strategy would be figuring out : a) How to organize b) Cluster c) Remember

d) Apply new information

Cognitive Strategy

MUST HAVE QUALITIES FOR INSTRUCTION

Gagne’s 9 Steps of Instruction

Describe for yourself the kind of test item or assessment you would use the to determine.

Think about steps that learner would have to go through to respond to your assessment or test.

Test yourself: Observe yourself, both in the physical

and mental sense, performing the goal.

Note each of steps you go through and the decision you have to make.

SUGGESTION FOR IDENTIFYING STEPS WITHIN A GOAL

I am a change agent that lives in the future, not the present. Regardless of what is going on today, I have a vision of what could or should be and uses that as the governing sense of my actions. To a certain extent, I am dissatisfied with what I see around me, in favor of a much better vision of the future. I am fueled by passion, and inspires passion in others, Change is hard work. It takes a lot of energy. Don't underestimate this. I like to think about the amount of energy it takes to boil water. From 212 degree water to 212 degree steam takes a lot more energy than heating water from 211 degrees to 212 degrees. In my experience, without passion, it is very difficult indeed to muster up enough energy to assault the fortress of status quo that seems to otherwise carry the day. I have a strong ability to self-motivate. There are many days where everyone around me does not understand and will not offer props. I find it within myself to get up every day and go to work and risk being misunderstood and misappreciated, knowing that the real validation may be far in the future and may be claimed by someone else. I understand people and at the end of the day, change is about people. If I change everything but the people, I doubt I'll be effective as a change agent. Change will really "stick" when people embrace it. Therefore, change is part sales, part counseling and part encouragement. It's all about people. At the end of the day, It is entrusted with a very powerful lever for change - technology. With that lever, I can bring very powerful change to my job.

CHANGE AGENT

The goal analysis process is begun only after we have a clear statement of the instructional goal.

Involve 2 steps in goal analysis process; which is to classify the goal and identify the major steps for learners to accomplish the goal into one of Gagne’s (1985) domains of learning.

Specific problem that should look during evaluation is the sequence of procedures or steps involved.

SUMMARY