Week 8 - Instructional strategies for procedures and principles learning

Another 2 concepts of learning.

Procedures and principles.

Procedure knowledge is “knowing how” it involves a set of actions to achieve a goal. Tying back to the previous lecture. Learning to execute a procedure is an intellectual skill. Whereas merely learning to state the steps in a procedure is only a factual outcome.


Principles on the other hand are thought of as combination of rules, concepts and often facts. Principles are relational rules among concepts. They can often be expressed in the form of "if then" or "cause effect" statements.