Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction

Event of Instruction	Learning Process
1. Gaining attention Giving learner a stimulus to ensure reception of coming instruction	Attention
2. Informing the learner of the objective Telling learner what they will be able to do for the instruction	Expectancy
3. Stimulating recall of prior learning Asking for recall of existing relevant knowledge	Retrieval to working memory
4. Presenting the stimulus Displaying the content	Pattern recognition; selective perception
5. Providing learner guidance Supplying organization and relevance to enhance understanding	Chunking, rehearsal, encoding
6. Eliciting performance Asking learners to respond, demonstrating learning	Retrieval, responding
7. Providing Feedback Giving feedback on learner's performance.	Reinforcement, error correction
8. Assessing performance Providing feedback to learners' more performance for reinforcement	Responding, retention
9. Enhancing retention and transfer Providing diverse practice to generalize the capability	Retention, retrieval, generalization

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