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ID Project
ID Project
1. Goal Statement
System employees will demonstrate writing professional and readable emails by utilizing
the Flesch Reading Ease Test on Microsoft Outlook and the Zero Harm communication
tool, Team Member Checking.
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3. Learner Analysis
Questions about Learner characteristics:
Entry behaviors: Unwillingness to wait for a team member check before sending a new
email or email reply.
Prior knowledge of topic area: The staff are already familiar with both Microsoft
Outlook and Zero Harm communication tools. Outlook is installed on all system
computers and the Zero Harm course is mandatory for all employees.
Attitudes toward content: Both managers and staff-level employees have requested
more training in how to sound more professional in their email communications while
still maintaining the ability to communicate effectively across all job levels.
Attitudes towards the delivery system: The content will be delivered via classroom
instruction. This is the delivery system that the employees are most familiar with and
therefore they are comfortable with this system.
Academic motivation (ARCS): Pertaining to attention, the staff has been requesting
further training on writing more professional, effective emails for several months. It is
relevant to all kinds of employee roles throughout the system since email is our primary
form of written communication. Most staff that were interviewed were confident in
their ability to learn the tools and skills necessary to improve their email writing. Others
felt that their confidence would increase after they took the class. All employees
seemed satisfied that learning these additional skills would immediately improve their
emails and decrease frustration with writing and receiving poorly written emails.
Education and ability levels: The employees that will take this course are diverse in
their education and ability levels. They range from having earned high school diplomas
to doctorates. Some employees speak English as a second language, with Spanish being
the most common other first language. Their ability level ranges from someone with
very little email communication experience to someone who communicates by email for
most of their work day.
General learning preferences: Most staff prefer classroom instruction with a live
instructor while also having the tools that they will use in their work environment
available to practice with.
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Attitudes toward class, group, or organization: The employees appreciate our company
providing free, on-site professional development courses.
What data sources did you use for your responses to the previous questions? Learner
interviews, manager and employee requests for email etiquette instruction, and
previous Accountability and Professionalism course evaluations.
What implications do these answers in your learner analysis have for the way you
design your instruction? This allows me to be prepared for all learner ability levels and
factor in plenty of time for practical application, review, and correction before the end
of the course instruction.
4. Context Analysis
Questions about the learning context (where the instruction takes place):
The training site will be a classroom in which many employees have taken classes
previously. It is centrally located inside the hospital. Many times, employees
from the same teams or departments will take a training class together which
increases the likelihood of engagement and participation in the session.
What constraints are present in the learning context that will affect the design
and delivery of the instruction?
Ensuring that the session is the right length of time, that employees will sign up
to attend voluntarily, and making sure there are enough training facilitators to
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How relevant are the skills that are taught in the learning context to the goals of
the workplace or school system?
The health care system the employees work for already mandate that all new
staff attend the course, Zero Harm, to improve communication skills. A deep dive
into written communication is a natural follow-up to that.
If the performance context (where learners carry out the skills and concepts that they
have learned) is different from your learning context, also answer these questions:
The learning context is adaptable since all employees use email to communicate
and have access to computers at work.
What implications do these answers in your context analysis have for the way you
design your instruction?
1. Goal Analysis
a. System employees will demonstrate writing professional and readable emails by
utilizing the Flesch Reading Ease Test on Microsoft Outlook and the Zero Harm
communication tool, Team Member Checking.
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c. Major steps:
1. Open Microsoft Outlook application
2. Enable Flesch Reading Ease Test option
3. Determine if this is a new email message or a reply to a previous message
3.1. New: click on “new email” on toolbar
3.2. Reply: open email message that you are replying to
4. Compose message
5. Review message using “spelling and grammar check”
6. Make necessary corrections
7. Review readability statistics to ensure proper reading level
8. Conduct Team Member Check
9. Make necessary revisions
10. Send email
d. Diagram:
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d. Diagram:
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1. Performance Objectives
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2. Assessments
Name: ______________________
Observer: ____________________
Date: _______________________
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1. Instructional Strategy
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3 5. Using results from spelling and grammar check and the readability 15
Correction statistics, employee will make any necessary corrections. min.
PRE-INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES
I intend to grab the Attention of the employee learners by showing them examples of poorly
written emails.
The employees will understand the Relevance of the instruction since email is our company’s
primary form of written communication.
The employees will feel their Confidence in email writing skills increase as they become
familiar with the tools available to assist them.
Satisfaction will be achieved when they see the improvement between the practice and final
messages.
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Objectives: The objectives will be listed on a slide before instruction begins. Employees will
have clear expectations on what they will accomplish by the end of instruction.
Entry Skills: All employees are required to complete New Employee computer-based training
when they are first hired, so prerequisite skills, such as knowing how to login to the company
system, are already met.
Student Groupings and Media Selection: Each employee will have their own desktop or
laptop PC to work on in the computer lab. After a brief PowerPoint presentation with email
writing skills and tips, employees will work independently.
ASSESSMENT
Practice Tests: Employees will practice using the email writing skills from the PowerPoint
when correcting and revising the practice message.
Posttest: I will examine each final email using a rubric and suggest corrections or revisions
that should have been made, if necessary.
Student Groupings and Media Selection: Each employee will receive individualized feedback
based on the rubric.
FOLLOW-THROUGH ACTIVITIES
Memory Aids: A handout of the email writing skills and tips will be available for the
employees to take back to their work environment.
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Transfer: Each employee will receive feedback from me regarding their final email before
leaving class. Performance context will not differ much from the learning context. Employees
will be able to utilize similar equipment and be required to use the skills learned in class when
in their work environment.
Student Groupings and Media Selection: Employees will work on their email revisions
independently until they request a Team Member Check during which collaboration will occur
via email.
Objective 1: Given a desktop PC or laptop PC, employee will use mouse to navigate to and
open Microsoft Outlook and the practice message.
CONTENT PRESENTATION
Content: will be presented in a face-to-face format. Students will have a desktop or laptop PC
to use.
Examples: Employee will login to company system, open Microsoft Outlook, and then open
the practice message.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group with each employee having a PC.
STUDENT PARTICIPATION
Practice Items and Activities: Students will attempt to open Microsoft Outlook and find the
practice message.
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Feedback: I will ask students to confirm verbally when they have opened the practice
message.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group, working independently on their
own PC.
Objective 2: With Microsoft Outlook open, employee will locate and enable “show readability
statistics” option inside application.
CONTENT PRESENTATION
Content: will be presented in a face-to-face format. Students will have a desktop or laptop PC
to use.
Examples: Employee will enable the readability statistics option in Microsoft Outlook.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group with individual PCs.
STUDENT PARTICIPATION
Practice Items and Activities: Students will attempt to enable readability statistics.
Feedback: I will walk around and help individuals who cannot find this option.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group, working independently on their
own PC.
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Objective 3: Employee will demonstrate ability to use “spelling and grammar check” feature
in Outlook by locating 4 spelling and 2 grammatical errors in practice message.
CONTENT PRESENTATION
Content: will be presented in a face-to-face format. Students will have a desktop or laptop PC
to use.
Examples: Employee will read practice message and then use the spelling and grammar check
to locate the purposefully made errors.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group with individual PCs.
STUDENT PARTICIPATION
Practice Items and Activities: Students will attempt to locate errors in the practice message
using spelling and grammar check in Microsoft Outlook.
Feedback: I will be available to answer individual questions and will ask for verbal
confirmation that they have found the errors.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group, working independently on their
own PC.
Objective 4: Using practice message, employee will review readability statistics to ensure
message-reading level is no higher than 9th grade.
CONTENT PRESENTATION
Content: will be presented in a face-to-face format. Students will have a desktop or laptop PC
to use.
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Examples: Student will use readability statistics and locate reading level.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group, working independently on their
own PC.
STUDENT PARTICIPATION
Practice Items and Activities: Student will review readability statistics window to determine
practice message reading level.
Feedback: I will ask students to verbally confirm when they have found their message’s
reading level.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group, working independently on their
own PC.
Objective 5: Using results from spelling and grammar check and the readability statistics,
employee will make any necessary corrections.
CONTENT PRESENTATION
Content: will be presented in a face-to-face format. Students will have a desktop or laptop PC
to use.
Examples: Employee will review practice message after using spelling and grammar check and
readability statistic functions. Employee will then make necessary corrections.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group, working independently on their
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own PC.
STUDENT PARTICIPATION
Practice Items and Activities: The students will be correcting the spelling, grammar, and
reading level of the practice message.
Feedback: Feedback will be provided as I walk around looking at their corrected message or if
they indicate they have questions.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group, working independently on their
own PC.
Objective 6: Employee will use “forward” feature to send email to another employee in the
class (team member) and request second employee to conduct Team Member Check.
CONTENT PRESENTATION
Content: will be presented in a face-to-face format. Students will have a desktop or laptop PC
to use.
Examples: Employee will forward practice message to a fellow classmate. During that time,
that same employee will review a message that has been forwarded to them.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group, working independently on their
own PC.
STUDENT PARTICIPATION
Practice Items and Activities: Students will be forwarding the practice email they have been
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working on to a classmate.
Feedback: I will walk the room and watch for employees that might be struggling and answer
questions as they arise.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group, working independently on their
own PC.
Objective 7: At this time, employees will also be conducting Team Member Check on fellow
classmates’ emails.
CONTENT PRESENTATION
Content: will be presented in a face-to-face format. Students will have a desktop or laptop PC
to use.
Examples: After review, each employee will formulate a response, with suggestions for
improvement if needed, and send the message back to the original sender.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group, working independently on their
own PC.
STUDENT PARTICIPATION
Practice Items and Activities: Employees will be reading and reviewing a practice email sent to
them from a classmate.
Feedback: I will walk the room and watch for employees that might be struggling and answer
questions as they arise.
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Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group, working independently on their
own PC.
Objective 8: Using suggestions from Team Member Check, employee will revise email if
necessary.
CONTENT PRESENTATION
Content: will be presented in a face-to-face format. Students will have a desktop or laptop PC
to use.
Examples: Employee will revise email using the suggestions from their fellow classmate.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group, working independently on their
own PC.
STUDENT PARTICIPATION
Practice Items and Activities: Employees will be rewriting their practice message.
Feedback: I will walk the room and look for students that might be struggling and answer
questions as they arise.
Student Groupings and Media Selections: One large group, working independently on their
own PC.
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1 1. Students will attempt to open Microsoft Outlook and find the 60 min.
practice message.
2. Students will attempt to enable readability statistics.
3. Students will attempt to locate errors in the practice message
using spelling and grammar check in Microsoft Outlook.
4. Student will review readability statistics window to determine
practice message reading level.
5. The students will be correcting the spelling, grammar, and
reading level of the practice message.
6. Students will be forwarding the practice email they have been
working on to a classmate.
7. Employees will be reading and reviewing a practice email sent to
them from a classmate.
8. Employees will be rewriting their practice message
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inside application.
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2. Instructional Materials
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Goal: System employees will apply the “readability statistics” option in Microsoft Outlook and
the Zero Harm communication tool, “Team Member Checking” in order to produce professional
and readable emails.
2. One-to-One Evaluations
a. Description of who served as one-to-one evaluators and why they were chosen
I consider all three of my one-to-one evaluators to be subject matter experts in
computer training.
Jared – technical educator for our company; Instructional Design, IBSTPI
Shelley – technical educator for our company; RN, BSN
Pam – lead technical educator for our company
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including the reasoning behind the class and really driving home how it will be
worth an hour spent away from patient care to learn about written
communication is important. I would like to incorporate that into the
PowerPoint or lecture portion at the beginning of class.
c. Description of the activities that you did during small group evaluation session
The small group watched the PowerPoint that gives examples of poorly written
emails, then dove straight into completing each objective in order.
d. Remarks on how long it took the target learners to complete the activities
Since all of the evaluators were from a professional background, I am not
surprised that they were able to complete the activities in the allotted time. I
would like to have been able to branch out to other departments, such as
environmental services or dietary, to find out how long it would take them as
they do not use email as extensively, but I could not pull them away from their
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would use the instruction manual and teach the class without me present. I think I
would get feedback that is more valuable if I were not there in the room.
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