EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Chapter 12 page 280 CHAPTER 12d Teaching Concepts When students lack prior knowledge of central concepts, they will have a great ...

Chapter 12 page 281 owners may be able to vote. A variable attribute of the concept EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE is the color of the lin ...

Chapter 12 page 282 c. if you are teaching a rule. Rules typically employ concepts, and students need to know each concept. For ...

Chapter 12 page 283 c. Present expository examples/non -examples in matched sets. Here is an example of a radius. This is not a ...

Chapter 12 page 284 d. Present interrogatory examples/non examples and give feedback after each example. As you answer the quest ...

Chapter 12 page 285 4. a. Does the line start at the center of the circle? YES NO b. Does the line end right at the edge of the ...

Chapter 12 page 286 e. Give practice examples / nonexamples and give feedback after each one. As you classify these items, cover ...

Chapter 12 page 287 f. Test students’ performance by having them classify new examples. For each item, decide if the line is a r ...

Chapter 12 page 288 Answer to question on previous page: The circles are all the same size. It would be better if they were a va ...

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Chapter 12 page 290 C. Presenting Conceptual Models A conceptual model is a diagram that summarizes the important information in ...

Chapter 12 page 291 This conceptual model shows how a bill becomes state law in Wisconsin (from http://www.legis.state.wi.us/sen ...

Chapter 12 page 292 The research on conceptual models can be thought as falling into several “rounds” of research. The first ro ...

Chapter 12 page 293 whether it is better to learn by studying only the diagram, or is it better to have the diagram plus some ad ...

Chapter 12 page 294 Organization The ideas are not organized in a logical manner. They jump around. For instance, a text may jum ...

Chapter 12 page 295 Example #1. Improving historical explanations Beck et al. (1991) rewrote a textbook passage on the Revolutio ...

Chapter 12 page 296 This brought peace to the American colonies. The colonists no longer had to fear attacks from Canada. The co ...

Chapter 12 page 297 Because its molecules are held very close together, almost as close as those of a solid, liquid matter does ...

Chapter 12 page 298 You know that water feels wet and soft. You might think that each molecule is wet and soft, too. But that is ...

Chapter 12 page 299 The molecules of water are always moving. The molecules in the water are moving all around, and they never s ...