The Senate…

presents

The Affective Side of the

World

Domains

• Cognitive• Affective• Psychomotor

Assessment in the Affective Domain

Describes…

• Feeling tone• An emotion• Degree

– Acceptance– Rejection

…certain people are “schooled” but not

“educated”

Taxonomy in the Affective

Domain

Taxonomy

• Identifying•Understandin

g•Addressing

How people learn!

Recall

Kratwohl’s Taxonomy of Affective Domain (1964)

• Receiving• Responding• Valuing• Organization• Characterization

Affective Learning Competencies

Affective desires

Instructional objectives

Behavioral Verbs Appropriate for the affective Domain

•Receiving•Responding•Valuing•Organization•Characterization

Focal concepts

•Attitudes–Cognitions–Affect–Behavioral Intentions–Evaluation

Attitudesmental predisposition to act that is expressed by evaluating a particular

entity with some degree of favor or disfavor

Four components:

• Cognitions• Affect• Behavioral

Intentions• Evaluation

Cognitions

• Beliefs

• Theories

• Expectations

• Cause and Effect beliefs

• Perceptions

Relative to the focal object

Affect•Feelings

–Fear–Liking–Anger

Behavioral Intentions

•Goals•Aspirations•Expected responses

Evaluation• Central component of attitudes

– Goodness– Badness

Why study “Attitudes”

Thank you!