Learning Requirements

Most of today's learning reqires that the student learn new attitudes, gain new knowledge, and develop new behaviors. To learn, the student must work in two domains: the cognitive and the affective.

Cognitive Domain

Mastery of the coginitive domain is necessary to obtain effective results.
Cognitive Domain

Cognitive Action

Limits

Functional Objective

Collection and recognition

Rote Memory

Comprehension

Restatement

Application

Examples


Lecture/Test

Analysis

Break idea into parts


Textbook

Synthsis

Put parts into cohesive whole


Projects

Evaluation

Judgement of relevance and importance


Professional Practice

Affective Domain

Affective Domain

Attentiveness

Limits

Receiving knowledge

Participation

Responsing


Lecture/Test

Commitment

Valuing the knowledge


Textbook

Value system

Organizing the knowledge


Projects

Value and Behavior

Charactering the knowledge


Professional Practice

Taken from William J. Kolarik. Creating Quality. McGraw-Hill. 1995.
Steve Stevenson
Last modified: Mon Feb 23 15:23:45 EST 1998