Psychomotor or Skill Domain Guide
Use this chart when the major topic or task is primarily concerned with acquiring and perfecting skills. These skills may be strictly speaking psychomotor, such as skate boarding, or they may be producing an art form or some other directly observable product. Academic works have both cognitive and skill elements. Writing a report, building a presentation, etc. are psychomotor skills, the thinking that underlies the final product is cognitive. While these two facets of academic work are closely intertwined try to separate them when writing educational objectives and assessments. For example a person may understand music theory, yet lack the physical coordination to play an instrument or be physically unable to write a musical score. On the other hand someone may be able to expertly play and instrument and invent great music for it, yet not even know the correct names of the notes.
Another way to look at this whole thing is to treat the skill level as adverbs modifying the verbs from the other domain charts. Yet another approach is to consider this to be the learner's quality of playing the epistemic game of loading an epistemic form. This would again be expressed as adverbs.
| Level |
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Then use these key words or
phrases in objectives, assignments and evaluations. |
|
| 1. Imitating |
|
attempt |
reproduce respond start tries to using a model |
| 2. Manipulating |
|
complete |
manipulate play perform produce |
| 3. Perfecting |
|
achieve |
masterfully |
| 4. Articulating |
|
adapt |
customize originate with fundamental revisions with great skill |
| 5. Naturalizing |
|
naturally perfectly |
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Some resources from which the above was adapted:
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/educ_school/seced/psycho.htm
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/educ_school2/docs/stai_manual/manual10.htm
http://gfb.cas.psu.edu/EdTech/psychomotor.htm
http://gfb.cas.psu.edu/EdTech/altpsych.htm
http://www.nedc.nrcs.usda.gov/pdf%20files/Psychomotor%20Performance%20Objectives.pdf
Chart first posted to the Internet June 16, 2002.
