Instructional Design
Needs Assessment Exercises
Here are some exercises to help make sure you have the basic
concepts and can apply them in various ways:
When doing a needs assessment you need to analyze several different factors
in each situation. This analysis is best when it is based on data about the
situation and about the audience. However, the instructional design point of
view can be helpful even with just a quick look. You can look at various
situations to determine such things as
- what should people be doing in this setting? How do you know it is
possible?
- what are they doing now?
- why (probably) are they not doing it correctly?
- will instruction of some kind help solve this problem?
- what data would you need to be more certain of your analysis?
Try analyzing the following situations:
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