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Acronyms and Glossary

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Interservice Procedures for Instructional Systems Development :
Acronyms and Glossary (continued)
by Robert K. Branson, Gail T. Rayner and J. Lamarr Cox

GLOSSARY (continued...)

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KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS: Feedback; information provided to the student indicating the correctness of his response. Evaluative knowledge of results indicates what a student is doing right and what he is doing wrong. Comparative knowledge of results indicates how the student's response compares to the objective or standard established by the instructor.

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LEARNER CHARACTERICTICS: The traits possessed by learners that could affect their ability to learn (e.g., age, I.Q., reading level, etc.).

LEARNING ACTIVITY: The specific behaviors a student performs during a particular episode of learning.

LEARNING ANALYSIS: A procedure to identify sub-elements that must be learned before a person can achieve mastery of the performance.

LEARNING CATEGORY: A division of learning behavior. All learning may be classified into one of four learning categories: mental skill, physical skill, information, or attitude.

LEARNING EVENT: The immediate outcome of a learning activity.

LEARNING GUIDELINES: Statements which specify the learning events and activities appropriate to specific instruction. Learning guidelines combine to form learning sub-categories.

LEARNING HIERARCHY: Graphically portrays the relationships among learning tasks in which some tasks must be mastered before others can be learned.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Describes precisely what is to be learned in terms of the expected student performance under specified conditions to accepted standards. These learning objectives identify the mental skills, information, attitudes, or physical skills that are required to perform the terminal learning objective.

LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER: Library containing instructional materials and areas for viewing and study.

LEARNING STEP: Occurs when learning objectives are broken down into smaller parts.

LEARNING SUB-CATEGORY: A division of a learning category.

LEARNING TASK ANALYSIS: Procedure used in the domain of intellectual skills to identify prerequisite tasks that must be learned before a person can learn a given task.

LINK TRAINER: Mechanical training device which simulates the cockpit of an aircraft.

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