Robert Mager’sInstructional Objectives

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Who is Robert Mager?

•Graduate Ohio University - Masters•Graduate Univ. of Iowa PhD - Psychology

• Became Interested Instructional Design after serving in the Army seeing soldiers trained • Wrote a book called “Preparing Instructional Objectives”

Contributions to the FieldMager’s Criterion-Reference Instructions (CRI) training

methodology

Mager with Peter Pipe designed the methodwhich is the standard of excellence in training and performance improvement

Preparing instructional objectives is one of the aspects of this training

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What is an Instructional Objective? Words, pictures and diagrams that can identify what

is needed to achieve the goal Intended Outcomes are:Specific MeasurableWhat a learner will be able to do after instruction

(Mager, 2007, p.3)

Characteristics of Objectives

“Objective is a subject in which you are familiar with and will be able to identify (label) correctly” Performance – Competency Level Conditions – Under what conditions do you want the learner to be able to do? Criteria – How well must it be done?

(Mager, 2007, p.4)

Elements of an Objective

Advantages of Instructional ObjectivesBasis for designing instructional materials

Can determine whether an objective has been accomplished

Provides students with a way to organize efforts toward the objectives

Mager, (1984).

Performance Objectives Are

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Well-Written ObjectivesPerformance is what the learner will be able to doCondition is under what conditions the

learner will be able to do itCriterion is how well it must be done

Mager (1997)

Example of Instructional Objective

After the e-learning of instruction the learners will be able to identify the three advantages of instructional objectives in a quiz with a 95% accuracy.

 Audience: learners interested in the objectives Behaviors: what is the learner expected to perform Conditions: how the lesson will be learned Degree: to what degree will objective be accomplished

Mager (1984)

Outcomes VS ProcessThe objective is an intended outcome of instruction rather than the process of instruction.

Example: Teachers lecture to help students learnIt is a process – the lecture is not the purposeThe purpose is to facilitate learningTeachers will teach (process)Students will learn (outcome)

Mager (1997)

Impact of Mager’s Contribution

Idea of an instructional objectives was ground breaking, to be able to assist educators on how to write clear objectives

Mager’s work is still used today to direct educators with instruction (Mager, 1962)

Contribution to the field: transitioned from traditional training to Human Performance Improvement

Contribution on organizations: to provide more effective training procedures

Contribution personally: to understand the value of performance objectives and how they how they effect training, goals, and results

References

Mager, R. F. (1984). Preparing instructional objectives (2nd edition). Lake Publishing Company: Belmont, California. Retrieved January 4, 2013 from www.gsu.edu/~mstmbs/CrsTools/Magerobj.html

Mager, R.F. (1997). Preparing instructional objectives: A critical tool in the development of effective instruction(3rd ed.). Atlanta, GA: Center for Effective Performance.

Reiser , R., (2001). A history of instructional design and technology: Part II: A history of instructional design. Retrieved January 4, 2013 from https://files.nyu.edu/jpd247/public/2251/readings/Reiser_2001 The University of Utah. (2012). History of Instructional Design. Retrieved January 4, 2013 from home.utah.edu/~rgm15a60/Paper/html/index files/Page1108.htm

Center for Effective Performance (CEP) . (2013). Criterion-referenced instruction (CRI). Retrieved January 5, 2013 from http://www.cepworldwide.com/Bios/mager.htm

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