Wednesday, October 3, 2007

A few more thoughts on task analysis

A few comments on The essentials of instructional design article, by Abbie Brown and Timothy Green.

Task analysis is one of the most critical components of instructional design.

There are four approaches to doing task analysis, but they all have the same goal: to gather information about the content and task to be learned.

You should come up with a document, either using an outline, or a flowchart diagram approach with boxes and diamonds. Diagrams may work better for visual learners. An outline may work better to break down steps into substeps.

How to evaluate your task analysis: ask a professional (subject matter expert) to review it, or compare with other information gathered during the instructional design process to see if content and skills were correctly identified, or conduct a summative evaluation after the instruction has been implemented.

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