Abstract:

Component Display Theory—(Merrill 1983; Merrill, Kowallis, and Wilson 1981) has been developed to be an analytical theory-based instructional  design guide. It was the rationale underlying  the design of the TICCIT computer-assisted learning system. It forms also a major foundation for hundreds of hours of instruction  designed by Courseware, Inc. This paper discusses step-by-step procedures of its use in designing a goal-oriented Computer Assisted Language Instruction  (CALI), and in quantifying  the effectiveness of the instruction as a preliminary evaluation tool.

Author: Soo-Young Choi