Mrs Babita Assistant Professor CONCEPT ATTAINMENT MODEL Jerome S Bruner Jacqueline J Goodnow and the late George A Austin developed the idea of concept attainment in their book A Study of Thinking 19 ID: 571382
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Delivered by Mrs. Babita Assistant Professor
CONCEPT ATTAINMENT
MODELSlide2
Jerome S. Bruner, Jacqueline J. Goodnow, and the late George A. Austin developed the idea of concept attainment in their book A Study of Thinking (1956).
Dr
. Bruner, a
psychologist
and educator at the New York University Law School, was a pioneer in the Cognitive Revolution in Psychology as well as a prime mover in the educational reform movement in the 1960sSlide3
He uses a multidisciplinary approach,
combining anthropology, psychology, linguistics,
and literary theory, to explore how enculturation affects
the formation of institutions – particularly education
and more recently law
.
Bruner’s primary contribution to education fall within
the arena of the
information processing models
– the models designed to help students acquire
and operate on data.
His primary advance in this area pertains to the
development and use
of Concept Attainment in
curriculum development.Slide4
Concept Attainment, a close relative to inductive thinking (Joyce and Weil 1967:15), focuses on the decision-making and categorization processes leading up to the creation and understanding of a concept.
A concept is “
the network of inferences that are or may be set into play by an act of categorization
”
(Bruner, Goodnow, and Austin
1956:244
). Slide5
The concept will be attained after minimum number of encounters with relevant instances;A concept will be attained with certainty, regardless of the number of instances one must test en route to attainment;
Minimize
the amount of strain on guessing and memorization while guaranteeing a concept will be attained
;
To
minimize the number of wrong categorizations prior to attaining a concept (Bruner et al 1956).Slide6
Concept attainment involves not only the decision-making
processes involved with categorization but it also
incorporates a personalized historical experience of each student or individual
.
Concept Attainment is an indirect instructional strategy that uses a structured inquiry process
to clarify ideas and to introduce aspects of content
well suited to classroom use because all thinking abilities can be challenged throughout the activity. Slide7
The pattern of decisions leading to concept attainment
involve the following five general factors:
1) the definition of task;
2) the nature of the examples encountered;
3) the nature of validation procedures;
4) the consequences of specific categorizations; and
5) the nature of imposed restrictions.Slide8
Steps of Concept Attainment:
Select and define a concept
Select the attributes
Develop positive and negative examples
Introduce the process to the students
Present the examples and list the attributes
Develop a concept definition
Give additional examples
Discuss the process with the class
EvaluateSlide9
Advantages:
helps make connections between what students know and what they will be learning
learn how to examine a concept from a number of perspectives
learn how to sort out relevant information
extends their knowledge of a concept by classifying more than one example of that concept
students go beyond merely associating a key term with a definition
concept is learned more thoroughly and retention is improved Slide10
Miscommunications in concept attainment could be a drawback to the educational process DISADVANTAGE:Slide11
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