Chapter 3 Conducting A Goal Analysis

Question 1

Define INSTRUCTIONAL ANALYSIS:

Answer 1

A set of procedures that when applied to an instructional goal, identifies the relevant steps for performing the goal and the subordinate skills required to achieve the goal

Question 2

Define SUBORDINATE SKILLS:

Answer 2

A skill that must be achieved in order to learn some higher level skill

Question 3

What are the 2 fundamental steps in goal analysis?

Answer 3

1. Classify the goal statement according to the kind of learning that will occur
2. Identify and sequence the major steps required to achieve a goal or major clusters of information learners must recall (for verbal information)

Question 4

Define DOMAINS OF LEARNING:

Answer 4

Different categories of learning

Question 5

Define VERBAL INFORMATION GOALS:

Answer 5

Requires the learners to provide specific responses to relatively specific questions

Question 6

How do you spot a verbal information goal?

Answer 6

Learner must “state”, “list” or “describe”

Question 7

Define INTELLECTUAL SKILL:

Answer 7

A problem solving task; skills that require the learner to do some unique cognitive activity

Question 8

What are the four most common intellectual skills?

Answer 8

1. Making discriminations
2. Forming concepts
3. Applying rules
4. Solving problems

Question 9

Define DISCRIMINATIONS:

Answer 9

Simple low-level learning by which we know whether things are the same or different.

Question 10

Define LEARNING CONCEPT:

Answer 10

Being able to identify examples as being members of a certain classification.

Question 11

Define PRODUCE RULES:

Answer 11

The combination of concepts.

Question 12

Define PROBLEM SOLVING:

Answer 12

(2 types ill and well structured) highest level of learning

Question 13

Define WELL STRUCTURED PROBLEM SOLVING:

Answer 13

Usually considered to be an application problem. The learner is asked to apply concepts and rules in order to solve it

Question 14

Define ILL STRUCTURED PROBLEM SOLVING:

Answer 14

Not all the data required for a solution are available to the learner or the nature of the goal is not clear

Question 15

Define PSYCHOMOTOR SKILLS:

Answer 15

Learners executing physical actions, with or without equipment to achieve specified results

Question 16

Define ATTITUDINAL GOAL:

Answer 16

The tendency to make particular choices or decisions

Question 17

How do you identify an attitudinal goal?

Answer 17

Determine if the learner will make a choice or if the goal indicates the direction in which the decision is to be influenced

Question 18

Define COGNITIVE STRATEGIES:

Answer 18

Meta processes that we use to manage our thinking about things and manage our own learning

Question 19

What is the best technique for analyzing a goal?

Answer 19

Describe in step-by-step fashion, exactly what a person would be doing when performing the goal

Question 20

Define GOAL ANALYSIS:

Answer 20

The visual display of the specific steps the learner would do when performing the instructional goal

Question 21

How is a decision represented on a goal analysis?

Answer 21

With a diamond and the alternate decision paths shown leading from the diamond (there must b two different skills to be learned/performed based on the outcome)

Question 22

What do you do if you run out of space on the goal analysis?

Answer 22

Use a circle after the last box on the line to indicate the point where the process breaks and then reconnects to the boxes after an identical letter circle

Question 23

What does a dotted line mean on a goal analysis?

Answer 23

When the goal is being performed it is possible to go back to any number of earlier steps and come forward through the sequence again

Question 24

What is the best sequence for informational skills?

Answer 24

Chronological when it can be identified when no natural order exists sequence based on relationships among them

Question 25

Goal analysis for intellectual and psychomotor skills is…

Answer 25

An analysis of the steps to be performed

Question 26

Goal analysis for verbal information is…

Answer 26

A list of major topics to be learned