This document discusses conducting a goal analysis for instructional purposes. It explains that a goal analysis involves analyzing a goal to identify the steps needed to meet it. There are two phases to conducting one: 1) analyzing the goal statement, learner characteristics, performance context, and available tools, and 2) classifying goals into Robert Gagne's five domains of learning - verbal information, intellectual skills, psychomotor skills, attitudes, and cognitive strategies. The analysis ensures important knowledge and skills are included and extras excluded to efficiently meet instructional goals.