Robert M.Gagne was a psychologist who introduce eight steps of sequential learning for pupils.

1. ROBERT M. GAGNE
Events of Instructions

2. About the theory….
R.M.Gagne (1984) a famous psychologist in
education. He recommends a behaviouristic
approach in teaching. Gagne presents eight
sequential steps of hierarchical learning. The lower
steps of hierarchy must be mastered before the
higher steps can be learned.

3. The eight steps of sequential learning for pupils

4. SIGNAL LEARNING
This is consists in acquiring the
habit of making some kind of
general emotional response to a
stimulus or signal.

5. STIMULUS RESPONSE LEARNING
Learning is based on S. R. type instrumental
conditioning emphasized by Thorndike. Here a
stimulus is properly discriminated for a
mechanical alike response . This consists in
learning to make relatively precise movements
of the muscles in response to specific stimuli.

6. CHAINING
In this type learning , two or more previously
learned S R. connections are joined together.
Gagne reserves this category for non verbal
sequences.

7. VERBAL ASSOCIATION
Where as chaining refers to motor movement,
verbal association refers to the mastery of
verbal units.

8. MULTIPLE DESCRIMINATION
This consists in acquiring the ability to
distinguish a set of stimuli in such a way to
make the response appropriate to each
member of the set.

9. CONCEPT LEARNING
Here the learner acquires the ability to
understand the common properties of a
group of substances that might still vary
from one another. It means learning t
respond to stimuli in terms of abstract
properties

10. PRINCIPLE LEARNING
It is also known as rule learning. Principles
are generated through the chaining of two or
more concepts.

11. PROBLEM SOLVING
The last idea in Gagne’s hierarchy is
problem solving. Problem solving consists
of a set events in which we apply the
principles we have already learn, in order
to achieved some goal.

12. Pyramidal structure of Gagne’s Learning Hierarchy

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