This document outlines Gagne's nine events of instruction and provides examples of how to apply each event when teaching students the research process. It discusses gaining student attention, informing them of objectives, stimulating prior knowledge, presenting content through examples and explanations, providing learning guidance, eliciting practice, giving feedback, assessing performance, and enhancing retention. The examples focus on guiding students through each step of the research process, from choosing a topic to presenting final products, with formative assessments along the way.

1. Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction: Teaching the Research Process Amy Carter EDET 709 – Applications of Learning Principles University of South Carolina

2. Pre-planning and Setup Gain attention. Inform learners of objectives. Stimulate recall of prior learning.

4. Provokes thought

6. “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” – Zora Neale Hurston

7. “In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.” – Neil Armstrong

8. Discuss:

9. Why do people research?

12. Properly research a topic.

13. Synthesize and present a quality final product.

14. OBJECTIVES – Students will be able to:

15. Explore and choose a topic.

16. Search for quality information.

17. Read and synthesize information from search.

18. Organize information to form a thesis and outline.

21. When have you had to research a topic before?

22. What did you do?

23. What worked?

26. Explanations and demonstrations make abstract concepts more concrete.

28. Show example final products of research that use different media. For example,

29. a Glog based on research (www.glogster.com)

30. a traditional research paper

33. a Glog based on research (www.glogster.com)

34. a traditional research paper

37. KWL Charts: What do you KNOW? What do you WANT TO KNOW? What did you LEARN?

38. Idea Webbing: What is your topic? Where might this take you?

39. Ask Questions: What do you want to learn?

41. Source cards and note cards: show examples and non-examples

42. Organize and outline information : Conference to check progress and clarify misconceptions. Use graphic organizers to chunk information.

44. Offer writing workshop if product is traditional research paper.

45. Show examples and non-examples of visual creative products.

46. Offer time in class for students to draft product and seek help.

49. One-on-one research and writing conferences

50. Class discussions of examples and non-examples of each step of the process

51. Research and writing workshops that allow students time to practice under watchful eye of instructor

54. Students defend final product by describing the quality research involved in making the product effective.