Robert Gagné’s Learning Outcomes
DOMAIN 1: COGNITIVE DOMAIN
Intellectual Skills Level
- Higher Order Rule Using (HORUS): Always requires the person to solve a new (novel) problem by inventing a new rule.
- Rule Using: A rule is made up of 2 concepts, which when combined, produce a predictable result. A critical attribute of rule using is recognizing the situation (or cues) that prompt the rule and applying the rule to some concrete instances. New, the input is a situation and there is a new result that is not a situation (problem). You have to resolve it, not just classify it.
- Defined Concept: Classifying things that are abstract. Classifying a definition of a concept by using examples per the definition.
- Concrete Concept: Classifying objects that are concrete. Things you can touch. Identify a new thing you have not seen before and categorize it.
- Discrimination: Identifying whether or not the new sample is the same as or different from a known sample. Has to be new. Are they the same or different?
Information Level
- Body of Knowledge: Stating something, paraphrasing. General ideas are stated.
- Fact: Statement made either orally or in writing, paraphrasing. Stating a relationship between 2 or more named objects or events.
Miscellaneous Cognitive Items
- Label: Learning the name of an object but not the meaning.
- Verbal Chain: Repeating sounds or words without knowing their meanings.
- Stimulus>Response (S>R): Responding to a stimulus, usually automatically, often without significant cognitive processing.
DOMAIN 2: AFFECTIVE DOMAIN
Attitude: Personal actions, showing positive-to-negative tendencies toward some objects, events, or persons.
Cognitive Strategy Level: The learner manages his/her own thinking process. It is the object of the skill which differentiates a cognitive strategy from other intellectual skills. Cognitive strategy has an affective component; you have to want to do something.
DOMAIN 3: PSYCHOMOTOR DOMAIN/MOTOR SKILLS
Executive Routine: It is the cognitive part of a motor skill that chooses and sequences the separate actions that make up the total motor skill. Invisible to the observer.
Gross Motor Skills: A motor skill that does not require a high degree of precision. In general, strength & speed (when fully exerted) are gross motor skills.
Fine Motor Skills: A motor skill that does require a high degree of precision.
