Designing Training and Instructional Programs for Older Adults

141Chapter eight: Methods and approaches to instruction and training

instructional strategy is then to perform an analysis of the steps that

comprise a procedure and to identify the corresponding procedural pre-

requisites in the order of their performance. In a procedural task analysis,

in essence one performs an HTA, but one that is directed toward the

decomposition of procedural steps rather than the decomposition of the

broader idea of skills.

Two points should be noted that have potentially important implica-

tions for training older adults. First, as with HTA, any step (or skill) that

is decomposed is intended to continue to provide a full description of that

step, but with more detail. The assumption is that more detail is ...