Learning Outcomes

1. Learning Outcomes • Gagne identified five Learning Outcomes • Intellectual Skill • Cognitive Strategy • Verbal Information • Motor Skill • Attitude

2. Learning Outcomes • Intellectual Skill Intellectual skills enable individuals to interact with their environment in terms of symbols or conceptualizations. Learning an intellectual skill means learning how to do something of an intellectual sort. Such learning contrasts with learning that something exists or has certain properties.

3. Learning Outcomes • Cognitive Strategy Cognitive strategies are the capabilities that govern the individual’s own learning, remembering, and thinking behavior. Provided it has previously been learned, a cognitive strategy may be selected by a learner as a mode of solving a novel (new) problem.

4. Learning Outcomes • Verbal Information Verbal information is the kind of knowledge we can state. Learning of such facts is an essential part of the learning of mathematics and science. Verbal information is also important for the transfer of learning from one situation to another.

5. Learning Outcomes • Motor Skill Motor skills are activities such as riding a bike, using a can opener, tying your shoelaces, printing a letter, operating a mouse, swimming, etc.

6. Learning Outcomes • Attitude Considered as a human capability, an attitude is a persisting state that modifies the individual’s choice of action.

7. Learning Outcomes • In Mathematics classes we want to develop • Intellectual Skills, • Cognitive Strategies, and • Verbal Information. • In Mathematics classes we are not concerned with either Motor skills or Attitude.