Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction
Robert Gagne was an American educational psychologist who created a nine step process called, The Events of Instruction. Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction model is a systematic process that helps a learner develop strategies and create activities for instruction. The nine events provide a framework for an effective learning process. Each step addresses a form of communication that supports the learning process. When each step is completed, learners are much more likely to be engaged and to retain the information or skills that they are being taught.
Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction
- Gaining attention (reception)
- Informing learners of the objective (expectancy)
- Stimulating recall of prior learning (retrieval)
- Presenting the stimulus (selective perception)
- Providing learning guidance (semantic encoding)
- Eliciting performance (responding)
- Providing feedback (reinforcement)
- Assessing performance (retrieval)
- Enhancing retention and transfer (generalization)
Here is a video that discusses Robert Gagne and his concept of learning, we are only focusing on his Nine Events of Instruction, but feel free to watch from the beginning of the video for more information: