Can Hierarchy of Learning based Instructional Design Enhance Speaking Skills among Secondary School Students?

Abstract

Education is a powerful weapon which has the solidity to carve out a potent society. Theconstraints imposed by current status of education plays major role in the way how childrenacquire skills. The studies conducted shows that school students lack speaking skills which putsa slur in their whole career. This paper attempts to explore the possibilities of improvingspeaking skills among students through a self made instructional design. The design is based onthe Hierarchy of Learning Theory formulated by Robert M. Gagne. This theory states that thelearning process takes place through several stages and the device plan includes materialscorresponding to all these stages. The device plan prepared engages students for a month inlearningprocessandfinallyevaluates the resultoftheprogramto knowwhetherthedeviceplanis effective in improving speaking skills in students. For that, the result of a pre-test and a post-test conducted are compared quantitatively. The findings are drawn from the result of thecomparisonandanalyzedthoroughly.