Gagne's Learning Varieties
The 9 Events
Experiments on Soldiers!
His Hierarchy
Gagne or Can't ye?
100

This variety of learning involves "knowing Stuff"— or the ability to state or describe facts.

What is Verbal Information?

100

Event #1 involves presenting a stimulus, to have this effect on the student.

What is Gaining Attention?

100

Gagné found this common laboratory "reward" principle was overemphasized in training.

What is Reinforcement?

100

The simplest level of the hierarchy involves recognizing one of these.

What is a Stimulus?

100

This communist seemingly hates banks... would not fare well in an intellectual duel with Gagne

Who was Paulo Freire 

200

In this variety of learning, These involve the physical coordination of the muscular system.

What are Motor Skills?

200

In Event #2, the instructor describes the required performance to inform students of these.

What are Learning Objectives?

200

In 1962, Gagné noted that military training was more about task structure than this.

What is Practice (or Frequency)?

200

This level involves distinguishing between two similar stimuli.

What is the Discrimination Level?

200

This theorist is well known for creating tasty word salads like "I'm Remixing socio-political consciousness with CRP dominating surface level Kwanza traps"...

Who is Gloria Ladson-Billings

300

This Variety of Learning is A persistent internal state that modulates behavior toward a person, object, or event

What are Attitudes?

300

Event #3 helps students "make sense" of info by doing this, to prior learning.

What is Stimulating Recall?

300

Gagné viewed the learner as part of this larger "Man-Machine" framework.

What is a System?

300

At this level, a student identifies a class of physical objects, like "chairs."

What is the Concrete Concept level?

300

This Theorist is best known for being long winded, his fowl mouth, and work with hollywood greats Donald and Scrooge McDuck.

who is Dewey ?

400

In this Variety of Learning, These "executive control" processes are used to manage one's own thinking.

What are Cognitive Strategies?

400

Event #5 involves giving "learning guidance" through this type of mental support.

What is Scaffolding (or Guidance)?

400

This 1962 paper argued that "training" is more like "engineering" than this.

What is Art (or Philosophy)?

400

This level involves applying a general principle to a specific situation.

What is Rule Application?

400

This Louisville Resident, who loves steak houses, pop culture, and providing cohorts with Jimmie Johns, is best know for founding the modern Army Cadet Command Master Educator Course.

Who is Dr. Jeff Sun?

500

Often considered the most essential category for instructional design, These ________ involve the ability to apply rules, concepts, and procedures to solve problems

What are Intellectual Skills?

500

Event #9 focuses on enhancing retention and this—the ability to use skills elsewhere.

What is Transfer?

500

Gagné’s military work helped distinguish "Training" from this, more general concept.

What is Education?

500

This, is the highest level of the hierarchy, where several rules are combined.

What is Problem Solving?

500

This education theorist is often confused as the controversial and incredibly talented former husband of Kim Kardashian.

Who is Gagne...?

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