Concept Attainment

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This activity can be done face to face "on the chalkboard, chart paper or overhead projector to a large or small group. It also works well as one-on-one work. Rather than starting with the teacher's concept, use a student's concept. Concept attainment can be used to introduce or conclude a unit of study".  Can concept attainment be used in the online learning environment using a whiteboard, blogging, journals, postings in a forum?

Variations on the Concept Attainment Model

bullet Present all the attributes of the concept to guess what the concept is
bullet Have all the positive and negative examples of the concept and ask students to put them into two categories and guess what the concept is
bullet Using a concept already presented have the students identify positive and negative exemplars
bullet Use the model as a group activity.

 

Berezowski, K., Clark, T., Cochlin, S., Karagat, S., Kindrachuk, L., Klopoushak, A., et al. (2001). Instructional Strategies. Retrieved February 12, 2004, from http://schools.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/strats/cattain/index.html

 

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