Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Conducting a Goal Analysis

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-Goals- A clear statement of what learners will be able to do. It should be identified and stated.

 

-Objectives- A specific result a person or system aim to achieve.

 

-Human capabilities- It is said to mean what a person is able to do or be.

 

-Courses – A set of classes or a plan of study.

 

-Instruction – Identifying topics or content areas and then determining what information should be included.

 

-Verbal information – A recall of certain information that requires a lot of memorization, organization, editing and printing.

 

-Motor skill – Three skills which are cognitive, associative, and autonomous. It requires repetitive training.

 

-Attitude – It is described as the tendency to make particular choices or decisions, identifying an attitude to determine whether the learner will have a choice or is influenced.

 

-Psychomotor Skills – It involves the coordination of mental and physical activity. They are characterized learners executing physical actions with or without equipment to achieve specific results.

 

-Intellectual skill – There are four types of intellectual skills which are making decisions, forming concepts, applying rules and solving problems; any goal that requires a learner to manipulate symbolic information in some way. The most important skill is problem solving. It is the domain of verbal information.

 

 

-Cognitive strategy – The metaprocess that we as individuals use to manage thinking about things and manage learning. It manages our thinking by figuring out how to organize problem solving.

 

-Goal Analysis – The visual display of the specific steps the learner will do when performing instructional goals; classifying the goal statement according to different types of learning such as identifying and sequencing which are the major steps to performing a goal.

 

-Gap Analysis – To seek answers to questions such as where are we; it also involves determining, documenting and approving the difference between requirements and current capabilities.

 

-Bloom’s Taxonomy- A popular scheme for categorizing learning in both schools and business settings. It provides guidance for how to analyze and skills and how to develop instructional strategies that will be most effective in bringing about learning.

 

-Adult Learning Theory – A theory that holds a set of assumptions about how adults learn. It is identified in six principles: goal oriented, relevancy orientated, practical, respectful, internally motivated and self-directed that brings about life experiences.

 


 

 

 

 

 

Part   

Locate a textbook for a course with which you are familiar.  State the title of the textbook and the course. Review one or two chapters and classify the content according to the five major categories of learning.

 

WORLD HISTORY “MODERN TIMES”

Ninth grade history

 

The five major categories of learning are:

 

Intellectual Skills- the ability to read the chapters

Verbal Information- the ability to understand what is read in the chapters and able to memorize the information.

Cognitive Strategies- how to relate to the information in the text

Motor Skills- how to interact and do the activities in the textbook

Attitudes –Making decisions about test

 

Part

Please Answer All the Questions Below.

1.     Define educational goal and educational objective, give an example of each.

Educational Goal is the level of educational accomplishments. Educational Objectives is ways of organizing levels of expertise according to Bloom’s Taxonomy. Educational Objectives are also known as learning objectives outcomes, terminal objectives, enabling and performance objectives, aims competencies, instructional and behavior objectives.

 

2.     List the differences and similarities between a goal and an objective.

 

The differences between the two are goals are broad statements, general intentions, intangible, abstract and generally hard to measure. The objectives are the arrows that help the learner reach the target and demonstrate mastery. Today they are both widely used and require the development of continuing professional educational activities that award continuing education credit. 

 

 

3.     Describe the relationships among educational goals, human capabilities, objectives, courses, and instruction.

They are all required to help learners understand and achieve their goals.

 

4.     List the five major categories of learned capabilities. Next to each, write its definition with one example.

 

The five major categories of learning are:

Intellectual Skills- knowing how

Verbal Information- able to state ideas

Cognitive Strategies- the ability to solve problems

Motor Skills- the ability to walk, talk and play

Attitudes- the ability to make decisions about different situations in his or daily life

 

 

 

5.     Briefly describe the major reasons why teachers or instructors or trainers should develop the ability to tell the differences among the types of learning.

 

There are three different types of learning and they are all required to help develop among learners. Each individual learn information differently because everyone is different.

Auditory learning is the ability to hear information for example reciting information out loud.

Visual learning is the ability to see information; looking at graphs, and watching demonstrations.

Kinesthetic learning is the ability to touch information which means hands on experience and sitting while studying the information.