This valuable resource provides instructional designers with the guidance they need to meet the challenge of creating effective and efficient instruction. Maintaining a careful balance between theory and application, the Fifth Edition presents a practical, easy-to-follow approach to instructional design that can be applied to K-12 classrooms, higher education, distance education, and business programs. The authors incorporate behavioral and cognitive approaches into their model, so that readers can reap the benefits of both. Following a preface, this book is divided into the following 15 chapters: (1) Introduction to the Instructional Design Process; (2) Identifying the Need for Instruction; (3) Learner and Contextual Analysis; (4) Task Analysis; (5) Instructional Objectives; (6) Designing the Instruction: Sequencing; (7) Designing the Instruction: Strategies; (8) Designing the Instructional Message; (9) Developing Instructional Materials; (10) The Many Faces of Evaluation; (11) Developing Evaluation Instruments; (12) Conducting Formative and Summative Evaluations; (13) Learning Theory and Instructional Theory; (14) The Role of the Instructional Designer at Work; and (15) Planning for Instructional Implementation. The following are appended: (1) Sample Instructional Design Documentation; and (2) A Sample Instructional Unit. A glossary and an index are also included. ["Designing Effective Instruction. 5th Edition" was written with Howard K. Kalman. For "Designing Effective Instruction. 4th Edition," see ED476460.]