Class 1 Flashcards
Alternative Assessment
Describes evaluation instruments and procedures other than objective-style tests; includes the evaluation of live performances, products, and attitudes, format includes directions for the learner and a scoring rubric
ARCS
Acronym for Keller’s theory of motivation (attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction)
Assesment-centered criteria
Test or item criteria used to judge item writing qualities such as grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity, parsimony, and the use of recommended item formatting rules
Assessment instruments
Materials developed and used to assess learners status and progress in both achievement and attitudes. For achievement, objective tests, product development activities, and live performances are included. For attitudes, both observation and self-report techniques are included.
Attitude
An internal state that influences an individual’s choices or decisions to act under certain circumstances. Attitudes represent a tendency to respond in a particular way.
Authentic assessment
Assessment in meaningful real-life contexts (or simulations thereof) in which newly acquired skills will ultimately be applied.
Behavior
An action that is an overt, observable, measurable performance.
Behavioral objective
A goal in therapy or research that concerns an act or a specific behavior or pattern of behavior.
Candidate media
Those media that can present the desired information, without regard to which may be the most effective. The distinction is from noncandidate media. A book, for example, cannot present sound and thus would be an inappropriate choice for delivering instruction for certain objectives.
Chunk of instruction
All the instruction required to teach one objective or a combination of two or more objectives
Cluster analysis
A technique used with goals in the verbal information domain to identify the specific information needed to achieve the goal and the ways that information can best be organized or grouped.
Cognitive strategy
Metaprocesses used by an individual to manage how he or she thinks about things in order to ensure personal learning
Cognitivism
A learning theory in which learning is viewed as active mental processing to store new knowledge in memory and retrieve knowledge from memory. Cognivitism emphasizes the structure of knowledge and external conditions that support internal mental processes.
Complex goal
A goal that involves more than one domain of learning.
Concept
A set of objects, events, symbols, situations, and so on, that can be grouped together on the basis of one or more shared characteristics and given a common identifying label or symbol. Concept learning refers to the capacity to identify members of the concept category.
Conditions
A main component of a performance objective that specifies the circumstances and materials required in the assessment of the learners’ mastery of the objective.
Congruence analysis
Analyzing the congruence among (1) an organization’s stated needs and goals and those addressed in candidate instructions; (2) an organization’s target learners’ entry skills and characteristics and those for which candidate materials are intended; and (3) an organization’s resources and those required for obtaining and implementing candidate instruction. Conducted during the expert judgment phase of summative evaluation.
Contructivism
A learning theory in which learning is viewed as an internal process of constructing meaning by combining existing knowledge with new knowledge gained through experiences in the social, cultural, and physical world. Constructivism emphasizes the processes and social interactions in which a student engages for learning.
Constructivist learning environment
Learners in collaborative groups with peers and teachers consulting resources to solve problems. Collaboration can be face to face or managed at a distance by media. Collaboration can be real or simulated in virtual learning spaces.
Content stability
The degree to which information to be learned is likely to remain current
Context-centered criteria
Test or item criteria used to judge the congruence between the situations used in the assessments and the learning and performance contexts. Authenticity of examples and simulations is the main focus.
Criterion
A standard against which a performance or product is measured
Criterion-referenced test items
Items designed to measure performance on an explicit set of objectives; also known as objective-referenced test items.
Delivery system
Term used to describe the means by which instruction will be provided to learners. Includes instructor-led instruction, distance education, computer-based instruction, and self-instructional materials.
Design evaluation chart
A method for organizing design information to facilitate its evaluation. The chart relates skills, objectives, and associated test items, allowing easy comparison among the components of the instructional design.
Discrimination
Distinguishing one stimulus from another and responding differently to the various stimuli.
Domain of learning
A major type of learning outcomes that can be distinguished from other domains by the type of learned performance required, the type of mental processing required, and the relevant conditions of learning.
Embedded attitude question
Question asked of learners about the instructions at the time they first encounter it.
Entry skills
Specific competencies or skills a learner must have mastered before entering a given instructional activity.
Entry-skill test item
Criterion-referenced test items designed to measure skills identified as necessary prerequisites to beginning a specific course of instruction. Items are typically included in a pretest.
EPSS
Acronym for electronic performance support system. An application embedded in a software system that can be accessed as needed to support job performance. The application could supply algorithms, expert systems, tutorials, hyperlinked information, and so forth.
Evaluation
An investigation conducted to obtain specific answers to specific questions at specific times and in specific places; involves judgments of quality levels.
Expert judgement evaluation
Judgments of the quality of instructional materials made by content experts, learner specialists, or design specialists. The first phase of summative evaluation.
Feedback
Information provided to learners about the correctness of their responses to practice questions in the instruction.
Field trial
The third stage in formative evaluation, referring to the evaluation of the program or product in the setting in which it is intended to be used. Also, the second phase of summative evaluation.
Formative evaluation
Evaluation designed to collect data and information that is used to improve a program or product; conducted while the program is still being developed.
Front-end analysis
A process used for evaluating instructional needs and identifying alternative approaches to meeting those needs. It includes a variety of activities including, but not limited to, performance analysis, needs assessment, job analysis, training delivery options, and feasibility analysis.
General learner characteristics
The general relatively stable (not influenced by instruction) traits describing the learners in a given target population.
Goal
A broad, general statement of an instructional intent, expressed in terms of what learners will be able to do.
Goal analysis
The technique used to analyze a goal to identify the sequence of operations and decisions required to achieve it.
Goal-centered criteria
Test or item criteria used to judge the congruence between the instructional goal, performance objectives, and test items of any format that is used to monitor learning.
Goal-centered instruction
The use of learning activities and materials designed to be used in a collective fashion with a group of learners; interactive group-paced instruction.
Hierarchical analysis
A technique used with goals in the intellectual skills domain to identify the critical subordinate skills needed to achieve the goal and their interrelationships. For each subordinate skill in the analysis, this involves asking “What must the student know how to do in order to learn the specific subskills being considered?
Individualized instruction
The use by students of systematically designed learning activities and materials specifically chosen to suit their individual interests, abilities, and experience. Such instruction is usually self-paced.
Instruction
A set of events or activities presented in a structured or planned way, through one or more media, with the goal of having learners achieve prespecified behaviors.
Instructional analysis
The procedure applied to an instructional goal in order to identify the relevant skills and their subordinate skills and information required fora student to achieve a goal.