The Psychology of Educational Technology and Instructional Media by Spencer Ken

Author:Spencer, Ken
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781351780247
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2017-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

Achievements of the Behavioural Systems

In many ways the work of Bloom and Keller in their mastery learning systems represents the summit of achievement for the neo-behaviourist ‘systems’ approach to instruction. Both were built on firm, though differing, psychological principles and of all the applications of the behavioural science approach to the technology of education, LFM and PSI represent the only methods which consistently produce significant educational results. Clark (1983) attributes this to the emphasis placed on method, defined by Glaser (1976) as ‘the conditions which can be implemented to foster acquisition of competence,’ rather than on the media involved in the delivery of instruction, as represented by the physical science approach.

It is fitting that Benjamin S. Bloom, whose work has been central to the development of instructional science for a generation, should have the last words:

If you can be moved to try these ideas with a few teachers in your school for even as short a period as three months, you can determine the validity and limits of these ideas where they belong - in your classrooms and with your teachers and students.

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