ABSTRACT
Mid-level analysis and design aims to provide the next level of clarity about the vision for each task or topic, including not only a more detailed selection of content and its sequence, but also objectives, assessments, and instructional methods. Objectives serve two purposes: to help instructional designers design good instruction (designer objectives) and to help learners learn (learner objectives). Each kind of objective needs different types of information to be most useful. Work with a task expert to identify the simplest real-world version of the task that is fairly representative of the task as a whole. This is stated as a behavior, together with the conditions that distinguish that version from all other real-world versions. Work with the task expert to identify each of the progressively more complex versions of the task up to the level of complexity required by the instructional need. This is usually done by removing one of the simplifying conditions at a time.
