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, Entry Skills Specific competencies or skills a learner must have mastered before entering a
given instructional activity.
Field Trial Part of formative and summative evaluation. Testing a product in the setting
where it would be used.
Expert Judgment Evaluation Judgments of the quality of instructional materials made by content experts,
learner specialists, or design specialists. The first phase of summative
evaluation.
Conditions A main component of performance objectives. Specifics the circumstances and
materials required in the assessment of the learner's mastery of the objective.
ARCS Attention
Relevance
Confidence
Satisfaction
Authentic Assessment Assessment in a real-life context where new skills will be applied.
Behavior An observable action
Cluster Analysis A technique used with goals in the verbal information domain to identify the
specific information needed to achieve the goal and the ways that information
can best be organized or grouped.
Formative Evaluation Evaluation designed to collect data and information to improve a program. It is
conducted while program is being developed.
Goal Analysis The technique used to analyze a goal to identify the sequence of operations
and decisions required to achieve it.
Hierarchical Analysis A technique used with goals in the intellectual skills domain to identify the
critical subordinate skills needed to achieve the goal and their
interrelationships. For each subordinate skill in the analysis, this involves asking
"What must the student know how to do in order to learn the specific subskills
being considered?"
Instructional Analysis The procedures applied to an instructional goal in order to identify the relevant
skills and their subordinate skills and information required for a student to
achieve the goal.