Robert Mills Gagne

 

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

 

 

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