title: Psychomotor objectives in occupational therapy education.
abstract: This article describes the role of educational objective taxonomies in facilitating the specification of intended learning outcomes and the apparent neglect of objectives directed toward psychomotor learning. A review of the literature indicates extensive material is available on motor learning and on the classification of psychomotor levels of behavior according to a systematic framework. Although many of the categories are functional for special areas, no one system has universal applicability. It is suggested that each discipline may need to draw on the literature to formulate its own taxonomic system, and a model taxonomy is offered for occupational therapy education in which levels of psychomotor performance are differentiated by the degree of individuation, the unique quality of performance introduced by the learner. Examples are given at each level and illustrative objectives combine expected behaviors with selected curriculum areas.
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D003071:Cognition; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009043:Motor Activity; D009048:Motor Skills; D009788:Occupational Therapy / Q000193:education*