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| Profile Dimensions A dimension is a psychological construct for describing a particular learning behaviour. More than one dimension constitutes a profile of dimensions. Profile dimensions describe the underlying behaviours or abilities students are expected to acquire as a result of having gone through a period of instruction. Profile dimensions are derived from the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains of educational objectives. From the cognitive domain, two profile dimensions have been specified for this subject namely Knowledge and Understanding (KU) and Application of Knowledge (AK. The affective domain covers beliefs, attitudes and values. The psychomotor domain covers physical and combined skills normally referred to as process skills or practical skills. Specific objectives used in developing syllabuses or training programmes describe behaviours to be exhibited by learners after going through a learning process. A specific objective represents attributes of learning from one or more of the domains of educational objectives. For example, the statement of a specific objective is as follows The student will be able to describe, etc. contains an action verb describe that indicates what the student will be able to do after teaching and learning have taken place. Being able to describe something after the instruction has been completed means that the student has acquired knowledge from the cognitive domain. Being able to explain, summarise, give examples etc. means that the student has understood the lesson taught. Similarly, being able to develop, plan, construct etc, means that the student has learnt to create, innovate or synthesize knowledge. Each of the specific objectives in this syllabus contains an action verb that describes the behaviour the student will be able to demonstrate after the instruction. Knowledge, Application etc. are dimensions that should be the prime focus of teaching and learning in schools. Instruction inmost cases has tended to stress knowledge acquisition to the detriment of other higher level behaviours such as application, analysis etc. Each action verb indicates the underlying profile dimension of each particular specific objective. Read each objective carefully to know the profile dimension toward which you have to teach. Download 443.64 Kb. Share with your friends:
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