Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Reading Notes on Gropper: Behavioral Approach to Instructional Design

Summary of readings from Instructional Theories In Action, edited by Charles M. Reigeluth.

Chapter three a lesson Based on a behavioral approach to instructional design by George L. Gropper.

Practice three approaches: routine treatments, shaping treatments, and specialized treatments.

Four categories of objectives: read calling or applying facts; giving definitions and explanations, applying them to examples, or illustrating them with examples; following procedural rules; solving problems.

Underlying components skills: discriminations, generalizations, associations, and chains. [ page 51].

Page 52:

Routine treatments:

  • providing a cue that elicits desired responses; how to file procedures, how to define a concept war classify an instance of the concept, how to explain phenomena.
  • Providing examples of performance
  • Providing opportunities to practice

Non-routine treatments [ shaping and specialized]

  • The size of the unit behavior practised
  • The amount of cueing made available during practice
  • The mode of stimulus or response
  • The frequency and variety of practice
  • The content of practice

Other organizational strategies

  • Advanced organizers
  • Self instruction

Display of information

  • Directing attention
  • Characterizing lesson content

Sequencing

  • “Sequence” as facilitator
  • Sequencing Of prerequisites

Lesson preface

  • The instructional objectives
    • The performance requirements
      • Classify
      • Define
      • Predict
      • Explain
      • State from memory significant events
      • Applied learning to new situation
    • Target audience
    • Lesson description
    • Testing
  • Annotations
    • Reader introductions
      • The conditions
        • What the learner has to do
        • Procedures
        • Transfer of learning
      • Treatments
        • Model performance
        • Address problem through practice
        • Characteristics of correct outcomes
        • Practice without cues
        • Practised routine in new situation
    • Itemized comments
    • Learning hints

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