Original Source Material: By instruction I mean any deliberate arrangement of events to facilitate a learner's acquisition of some goal. The goal can range from knowledge to skills to strategies to attitudes, and so on. The learners can be adults or children of any age, background, or prior experience. The setting in which learning takes place can be formal, school-based, on-the-job, or in the community - wherever programs for learning are being designed and implemented.

Source: Driscoll, M. P. (2000). Psychology of learning for instruction (2nd ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

A) The definition of instruction is broad, including any deliberate arrangement of events to facilitate a learner's acquisition of some goal, including the learning of:

Knowledge
Skills
Strategies
Attitudes (Driscoll, 2000)

References: Driscoll, M. P. (2000). Psychology of learning for instruction (2nd ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

B) Driscoll (2000) defines instruction broadly as "any deliberate arrangement of events to facilitate a learner's acquisition of some goal" (p. 25). She includes learning knowledge, skills, strategies and attitudes in a partial list of possible goals for learning.

References: Driscoll, M. P. (2000). Psychology of learning for instruction (2nd ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.