Task Analysis for Instructional Design: an introduction

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Task Analysis for Instructional Design an
introduction

• Ganesh Padmanabhan
• 3/19/2004

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Instructional Design

• Its hallmark is congruency between instruction,
  assessment, and learning outcomes.
• Different outcomes require different assessments
  and instructional strategies.

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Need for Task Analysis

• if you cannot describe how learners should be
  able to think and perform, how will you be able
  to design instruction or assessment?

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What is Task Analysis?

• A process of analyzing and articulating the kind
  of learning that you expect the learners to know
  how to perform.

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Kinds of Task Analysis

• Job/Procedural Analysis
• Content/Subject Matter Analysis
• Learning Analysis
• Cognitive Task Analysis
• Activity Analysis

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What do you do in Task Analysis?

• Inventory Tasks and Content
• Select Tasks for Analysis
• Describe/Decompose Tasks
• Sequence Task Components
• Classify Tasks into Learning Outcomes

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Factors in Selecting Tasks

• Criticality
• Universality/Frequency
• Standardization
• Feasibility
• Difficulty

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Task Classification

• Act of identifying tasks according to the
  specific type of learning outcome
• Taxonomies of Learning
• Critical link between analysis and use in
  instruction

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Knowledge Elicitation Techniques

• Documentation Analysis
• Observation
• Survey Questions
• Interviews
• Think-Aloud Protocols
• Unstructured Group Interviews
• Structured Group Interviews

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Questions and Discussion