Gagne’s

Conditions of
Learning
 OBJECTIVES
• Explain Gagne’s conditions of learning
• Make a simple lesson outline (teaching
sequence) using Gagne’s instruction
events
• Articulate the benefits of using
Gagne’s principles in teaching
 Gagne’s Conditions of Learning
9 Events of Instruction
Categories of Learning
Event 1
Gaining Attention

Verbal Information Event 2

Informing the Learner of the Objectives
Event 3
Intellectual Skills Stimulating Recall of prior Learning
Event 4
Presenting the Stimulus
Cognitive Strategies
Event 5
Providing Learner Guidance
Attitudes Event 6
Eliciting Performance
Event 7
Motor Skills Giving Feedback
Event 8
Assessing Performance

Event 9
Enhancing Retention and Transfer
Form groups of 5. Arrange the nine steps in
lesson presentation. Read and arrange the steps by numbering
them

_________1. Guidance of students’ performance

_________2. Recall prior learning
_________3. Enhance retention and transfer
_________4. Gain attention
_________5. Provide feedback
_________6. Assess performance
_________7. Present stimulus
_________8. Elicit performance
_________9. Identify the objective
 Analysis
Each group writes arrangement on the
manila paper for comparison and discussion.
Each group explains and justifies
arrangement.
 Gagne’s theory deals with all aspects
of learning. However, the focus of the
theory is on intellectual skills. The theory
has been utilized to design instruction in
all domains. In the earlier version of the
theory, special attention was given to
military training settings. Later, Gagne’s
also looked into the role of instructional
technology in learning.
 Gagne’s Principles
1. Different instruction is
required for different learning
outcomes
Gagne named five categories
of learning: verbal information,
intellectual skills, cognitive
strategies, motor skills, and
attitudes.
 Categories of Example of Conditions of
Learning Learning Learning
Outcome
Verbal Information Stating previously learned 1. Draw attention to
materials such as facts, distinctive features by
concepts, principles, and variations in print or
procedures e.g. listing the speech
14 learner-centered 2. Present information so
psychological principles that it can be made into
chunks
3. Provide a meaningful
context for effective
encoding of
information
4. Provide cues for
effective recall and
generalization of
information
 Categories of Example of Conditions of
Learning Learning Learning
Outcome

Intellectual Skills: Discriminations: Distinguishing 1. Call attention to

objects, features, or symbols. E.g.
Discriminations, Concrete distinguishing an even and an odd
distinctive features
Concepts, Defined number 2. Stay within the limits of
Concepts, Rules, Higher working memory
Order Rules Concrete Concepts: Identifying 3. Stimulate the recall of
classes of concrete objects,
features or events . E.g. picking out previously learned
all the red beads from a bowl of component skills
beads 4. Present verbal cues to
Defined Concepts: Classifying new
the ordering or
examples of events or ideas by combination of
their definition e.g. noting “she component skills
sells sea shells” as alliteration 5. Schedule occasions for
Rules: Applying a single practice and spaced
relationship to solve a class of review
problems. e.g. computing average 6. Use a variety of
monthly income of a company
contexts to promote
Order Rules: Applying a new transfer
combination of rules to solve a
 Categories of Example of Conditions of
Learning Learning Outcome Learning

Cognitive Strategies Employing personal ways to 1. Describe or demonstrate

guide learning, thinking,
acting, and feeling, e.g. 2.
constructing concept maps of
topics being studied
3.
the strategy
Provide a variety of
occasions for practice
using the strategy
Provide informative
feedback as to the
creativity or originality of
the strategy or outcome
 Categories of Example of
Learning Learning Outcome
Attitudes Choosing personal actions
based on internal states of
understanding and feeling e.g.
deciding to avoid softdrinks
and drinking at least 8 glasses
of water everyday
Conditions of
Learning
1. Establish an expectancy
of success associated with
the desired attitude
2. Assure student
identification with an
admired human model
3. Arrange for
communication or
demonstration of choice
for personal action
4. Give feedback for
successful performance;
or allow observation of
feedback in the human
model
 Categories of Example of Conditions of
Learning Learning Outcome Learning

Motor Skills Executing performances 1. Present verbal or other

involving the use of muscles
e.g. doing the steps in the
singkil dance
guidance to cue the
executive subroutine
2. Arrange repeated
practice
3. Furnish immediate
feedback as to the
accuracy of performance
4. Encourage the use of
mental practice
2. Learning hierarchies define what intellectual skills
are to be learned and a sequence of instruction.
Gagne suggests that learning tasks for
intellectual skills can be organized in a hierarchy
according to complexity: stimulus recognition,
response generation, procedure following, use of
terminology, discriminations, concept formation,
rule application, and problem solving.
 3. Events of learning operate on the learner in
ways that constitute the conditions of
learning.
The theory includes nine instructional
events and corresponding cognitive processes:
1. Gaining attention (reception)
2. Informing learners of the objective
(expectancy)
3.Stimulating recall of prior learning (retrieval)
4. Presenting the stimulus (selective perception)
5. Providing learning guidance (semantic
encoding)
6. Eliciting performance (responding)
7. Providing feedback (reinforcement)
8. Assessing performance (retrieval)
9. Enhancing retention and transfer
(generalization)
Questions
1. Discuss how Gagne’s events of learning
can help one to be an effective teacher.
2. Discuss what you perceive as the
advantages and disadvantages of using
Gagne’s instructional events in lesson
planning.
Application
Choose a topic with a particular lesson objective
in any grade or year level. Make a teaching
sequence applying Gagne’s nine instructional
events. Use the table provided for you.
Topic: __________________________________
Objective: ______________________________
Grade/Year Level: ________________________
 Event of Instruction Lesson Example/
Conditions of Learning
1. Gaining Attention
2. Informing the Learner of the
Objective
3. Stimulating Recall of Prior
Learning
4. Presenting the Stimulus
5. Providing Learner Guidance
6. Eliciting Performance
7. Gaining Feedback
8. Assessing Performance
9. Enhancing Retention and
Transfer
 Journal Writing
From the topic, “Gagne’s Conditions of
Learning”, I learned that
 Research Work
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