Chart No. 1: eight generic instructional formats mapped to generic learning outcomes from a mastery viewpoint¶

Element · All elements
Evidence · 1 claim (1 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q2 · 1 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description¶

Chart No. 1 presents the author's proposed analysis of the black box called the instruction/learning interface, taking a mastery viewpoint on eight generic learning outcomes. It lists coded generic instructional formats (A Lecture through H Programmed Instruction), each with a generic description of the instructional format, the related generic learning outcomes, and group size, drawing on taxonomies by Bloom, Krathwohl, Harrow, Simpson, Gagne, and others. For example, lecture is described as formal oral presentation of primarily one-way communication, linked to student acquisition of cognitive and affective types of knowledge.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Each instructional format described in terms of the observable morphology of that format, with a generically described learning outcome

Constraints¶

• The author presents it as one solution, a fairly limited follow-up to his 1972 tuition-pricing chart with generic but undefined instructional formats

Target Learners¶

• post-secondary education students

Target Learning Goals¶

• linking instructional formats to cognitive, affective, and psychomotor learning outcomes

Affordances¶

Claims¶

• In one synthesis of group-based mastery learning, five observational studies found more time-on-task in mastery classes and one community-college evaluation found lower attrition in seven of eight disciplines [+W]

Related Elements¶

• NCHEMS Data Element Dictionary Element No. 1107: Method of Instruction

Examples¶

• Convert the data element Method of Instruction to Instruction/Learning Interface with morphology descriptions and paired generic outcomes
• Map educational approaches onto predefined evidence synthesis skill components, delivery modes and outcome-measure categories when charting the literature

Key Sources¶

• Counelis, James Steve. (1974). WICHE/NCHEMS Work and the Need for Black Box Research. University of San Francisco, Office of Institutional Studies. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED096925