Instructional Theory is the identifying of methods that will best provide the conditions under which learning goals will most likely be attainted

• More than memory
  • understanding
  • apply knowledge

Gagne Taxonomy of Learning outcomes

• Verbal information
• Intellectual Skills
  • discrimination
  • concrete concepts
  • defined concepts
  • rules
  • higher order rules
• Cognitive Strategies
• Attitudes
• Motor Skills

Gagne's Nine Events

1. Gaining attention
2. Informing the Learner of the objectives
3. Stimulating recall of prior learning
4. Presenting the stimulus
5. Providing the learner guidance
6. Eliciting performance
7. Providing Feedback
8. Asessing performance
9. Enhancing retention and transfer

1. Leaning can not occur unless the learner is in someway oriented and receptive to the information
2. Self expectations increase motivation to learn
3. Encoding and transfer depends in large part on recalling prior knowledge
4. This is the material which is to be learned
5. The promotion of what is to be learned into the long term memory in a meaningful way
6. The confirmation of the learning--the perfomance or other indicator of learning
7. provides information on the correctness of the learning allowing the learner to dectect and correct errors
8. The formal assessment gives learners a comparison as to the degree to which the new behavior has been learned
9. The new behavior now learned should be easily and quickly recalled and/or applied to new learning situations.