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Figure 2.1
Instructional
Technology
Task analysis Demonstration
Objectives Presentation
Goal analysis Mnemonics
Advance organizers Self-pacing
Practice/feedback Modeling
Skill checks Reinforcement
Mission:
To change performance capability,
or what people can do.
Performance Technology
Instructional technology, however, is a subset of a larger col-
lection of procedures and techniques known as “performance
technology.”When people already know how to perform but are
not performing as desired, more instruction won’t help. Let me
say that again, and louder. When people already know how to
perform, but are not performing as desired, more instruction
won’t help. Such situations call for application of different
