Analysis: Taking Stock of What you Know
Academic Impressions ConferenceDecember 2-4, 2007, Austin, TXPatricia [email protected]
the case
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• What do you know?
• What more do you need to know?
What is analysis?
• Identifying a need• Articulating goals• Analyzing tasks• Describing the learning context• Understanding the learner
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determining a need
What is the need?
needs assessment identifies…
– Normative need
– Felt need
– Expressed or demanded need
– Comparative need
– Anticipated or future need
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Needs analysis to task analysis
1. Identify learning goal(s) through a front end needs analysis.
2. Identify tasks associated with the goals through a task analysis.
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Identifying instructional goals
• Higher education - goals come from?
• In other venues goals come from:– Subject matter expertise (SME)– Performance indicators
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• Who are the learners? Students
• What is the high level knowledge, skill or ability that they will learn? Specific facts, procedures, concepts, principles
Learners will interpret the impact of domestic economic policies on environmental issues
Goals answer…
Determining goals
• Review case
• Consider case outcomes (handout)
• Group outcomes by related topics
• Write a goal for each group of outcomes and record for use in the Design Phase
task analysis
Goals = what tasks?
Analyze by…
• Hierarchical Task Analysis
• IF and THEN Analysis
• Model Based Analysis
• Cognitive Task Analysis
• Information Processing Analysis
the good news
the context
What should you consider?
• Discuss case context cards one at a time.
• Make a list for each of the 7 areas. noted in the Case Context cards.
• Post to wiki under Considering the Context.
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the learner
Generations at Work
1922-1943 1944-1960 1961-1980 1981-2000
Nexters or Millennials
Veterans orTraditionalists
Baby Boomers Gen Xers
Retiring from the
work force
63-84 years old
Retiring from the
work force
63-84 years old
Middle to end
work force
46-62 years old
Middle to end
work force
46-62 years old
Beginning to mid
work force
26-45 years old
Beginning to mid
work force
26-45 years old
In K-20 education
system
6-25years old
In K-20 education
system
6-25years old
Sara McNeil, 2005
From: Smith, P.L. & Ragan, T.J. (2005), Instructional Design, 3rd Edition, p. 60. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Learner avatars
• What are the characteristics of the learners?
• What more might we need to know about the learners?
• Can the learners be grouped into difference categories? If so, how can we label these?
• What are the top five instructional needs of these learners?
• Save in Word Doc.
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Summing up…
• What are most important factors that will impact development?
• Who needs to be involved throughout process?
questions?
LUNCH!