Robert Mills Gagne
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Gagne studied at Yale, and Brown University, worked at Princeton University, Florida State University as professor, and so on. |
Known as a behaviorist moving in a cognitive direction, Robert Gagne developed
his theory of classroom instruction from his early experience of tackling
practical problems of training. His theory was composed of three major components:
a taxonomy of learning outcomes,
specific learning conditions
required for the attainment of each outcome, and the nine
events of instruction. In 1965, He published his famous magnum opus
The Conditions of Learning, a milestone elaborating the analysis
of learning objectives. He used task analysis to identify essential prerequisite
skills which were isolated in a hierarchy from simple to complex. He thought
task analysis was a significant help for selecting instructional events
for specific learning objectives. He also analyzed the stimulus situation,
which could be events that stimulate the learner's response. From this stimulus-response
learning situation, Gagne distinguished his eight Types of Learning Situations:
signal learning, stimulus-response learning, chaining, verbal association,
discrimination learning, principle learning, and problem solving.
Other resources:
http://www.fau.edu/divdept/found/EDG6255/gagne.htm
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/eflt/gagne.html