Resumen de Cognitive Task Analysis Underlying the Specification of Instructional Objectives

Robert Brien, Philippe Duchastel

• Starting from an examination of brain functions which are highly suggestive of various relationships between human competencies, this paper describes a general categorization of the cognitive components underlying the execution of a task railing on these competencies. Of particular use is the distinction between reproductive and productive competencies. A structure for the representation of these competencies is presented, as well as being applied to the instructional design task of specifying instructional objectives. A simple procedure for deriving cognitive instructional objectives is described and illustrated.