Categories of Knowledge & Skill

Composition of Team A

Smt. Lubna NikathKumar Rakesh Chandra

G Jagadeesh

Introduction

Knowledge - Collection of information stored -

facts, ideas, principles, procedures etc.• Skill -Organised pattern of activity - Mental or Physical• Attitude – Approach to a task/jobDistinction is necessary for designing a learning event

Knowledge Exemplified

Facts- One can remember- names, events, dates

Ideas- One can understand- define, stateProcedures- One knows how to doPrinciples- One can predict or explain certain

events

Categories of Knowledge

Facts- Concrete- people, places- Verbal information- numbers, codes, systems-Fact systems- Morse code, words of songsProcedures- what needs to done in a situationConcepts--Concrete- classes of items-e.g. transport

vehicle-Verbal labels- accounting, administrationPrinciples- Rules that guide action/ explain

change

Categories of Skills

Thinking- Mental / cognitive skillsActing- Motor or psycho-motor skillsReacting- ability to control behaviour to achieve a

desired objective

Interacting- Skills that enable to work with others

Further Categories of Skills

Reproductive skills- repetitive- Examples- Typewriting, addition of numbersProductive skills- innovative, planned- Examples- Solving mathematical problems

Productive & Reproductive skills

Significance of categories

Different training strategies for different categories

Knowledge of facts by repetition/ memorizing

Knowledge of procedures by repetition/ performance aid/ guided discovery

Concepts by example/ guided discovery (G.D.)

Principles by explanation & example/ G.D.Reproductive Skills require practice after

initial trg.Productive skills acquired through ability to

modify and refine application of underlying principles

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