Psychomotor Skills

The Psychomotor Domain

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

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

Nobody’s Perfect

• Psychomotor Objectives– require specific criteria – 100% accuracy should not be expected from the

novice– time limit?

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.