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Robert Gagn é. By Melissa Wurtzel, Sari Israel, & Rachel Dodson. 1916-2002 From Andover, Massachusetts Yale University, class of 1937 Brown University, class of 1940 . Work Experience. Professor at Connecticut College for Women, 1940-1949
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Robert Gagné By Melissa Wurtzel, Sari Israel, & Rachel Dodson
1916-2002 • From Andover, Massachusetts • Yale University, class of 1937 • Brown University, class of 1940
Work Experience • Professor at Connecticut College for Women, 1940-1949 • Professor at Pennsylvania State University, 1945-1946 • US Air Force Research Director • Professor at Florida State University 1969-death
Gagné’s 3 Principles • #1 - Providing instruction on the set of component tasks that build toward a final task • #2 - Ensuring that each component task is mastered • #3 - Sequencing the component tasks to ensure optimal transfer to the final task
Aims to Assist in Classroom Instruction • The skills to be learned-performance objectives • Specific type of learning identified • Task analysis • ”Instructional events" are chosen for each learning objective
Classification of Learning • 5 kinds of learned capabilities • Most popular learning taxonomies • Ability to clearly distinguish between abstract and concrete definitions of learning
Motor Skills • Bodily movement • Ex: shooting a target
Attitude • An internal state that affects an individual’s action toward something • Ex: Choosing to visit an art museum
Verbal Information • Includes labels and facts • Ex: making a verbal response to a specific input/bodies of knowledge
Cognitive Strategy • An internal process where the learner controls his/her own ways of thinking and learning. • Ex: paraphrasing the meaning of the text
Intellectual Skills • Includes discrimination, concrete concept, rule using, and problem solving • Gagne identified this levels as his taxonomy
Gagné’s Five Learned Capabilities in Relation to Education • Learning… • …is cumulative • …allows an individual the opportunity to become a functional member of society • …results in different kinds of human behavior
Gagné, R.M. and Briggs, L.J. (1974). Principles of instructional design (2nd ed.). Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. • Seels and Glasgow (1990). Exercises in instructional design. Columbus OH: Merrill Publishing Company.