Psychomotor Skills

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Psychomotor Skills
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The Psychomotor Domain

• Includes the skills requiring the use and
  coordination of skeletal muscles, as in the
  physical activities of performing, manipulating,
  and constructing.

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Psychomotor Objectives - Levels

• Imitation
• demonstrates an observed action
• Manipulation
• performs an action
• Precision
• performs an action with accuracy
• Articulation
• performs a coordinated activity in an efficient
  and coordinated manner

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Nobodys Perfect

• Psychomotor Objectives
• require specific criteria
• 100 accuracy should not be expected from the
  novice
• time limit?

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Psychomotor Skills - Steps

• State the objective(s)
• Present an overview or demonstration
• Have learners perform the skill
• Provide guidance and feedback
• Gradually raise criteria for satisfactory
  performance
• From Designing Effective Instruction 4th Ed.,
  Morrison, Ross, Kemp, 2004.