29 June 2009

Principles of Gagne



Robert Gagne built upon behaviourist and cognitive theories to recommend approaches to instruction. Much of Gagne's early experience as an instructional psychologist was sptackling practical problems of training airforce personnel. He dealt particularly with problems in determining just what skills and knowledge are required for someone to be an effective performer at a given job. Once job requirements were identified, the task then became one of determining how those requirements might best be learned by a person in training for the job. He suggested that a task would be best learned by following a specific sequence of nine events:
  1. gaining attention;
  2. informing the learner of the objective;
  3. stimulating recall of prerequisite learning;
  4. presenting new material;
  5. providing learning guidance;
  6. eliciting performance;
  7. providing feedback about correctness;
  8. assessing performance; and
  9. enhancing retention and recall.