Improving Cognitive Development in Secondary Chemistry through Gagne's Events Of Instruction

Abstract

The work being presented here intended to investigate the role of Gagne's events of instruction in the teaching learning process. The focus of this study was to bring about improvement in the conceptual framework and strengthening of their neural networks and the pruning misconceptions of students in the subject of chemistry at secondary level and to evaluate whether the events of instruction are helpful to assimilate the stimulus material with the neural networks of the learners. It was also observed that the events of instruction significantly reduced the learning time and simultaneously the assimilation rate was also increased. Information bridging time was reduced to a significant level. Comparison was made between the students taught by Gagne's events and the students taught by traditional method of instruction. The change or significant difference was observed in favor of those students who were treated by Gagne's events of instruction.

The study put emphasis on the incorporation of Gagne's events of instruction while planning, designing and teaching phase of lesson plan. The events of instruction need to be employed in the planning and designing phase of teaching learning process. The teachers can improve their pedagogical content knowledge and can design the learning situations and learning environments that are conducive to learning. So the teaching learning process, teacher's teaching skills can be made efficient and effective by incorporating Gagne's events of instruction.