Glossary

Assessment items-parallel to performance objectives and measure the learner's ability to perform what you described in the objective.

 

Constructivism - A school of psychology that believes that learning occurs because personal knowledge is constructed by the learner who solves problems by deriving meaning from experience.

 

Instructional Systems Design- is the process used to design and develop training or instruction.

 

Mastery-skill or knowledge that makes one master of a subject.

 

Performance objectives-specific statements of what the learners will be able to do when they complete the instruction.

Qualitative-of, relating to, or involving quality or kind.

 

Quantitative-of, relating to, or involving the measurement of quantity or amount.

 

Definitions taken from:

Dick and Carey: Systematic Design of Instruction, 2001

Merriam Webster Dictionary, 2006

 

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