Concept Attainment

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Concept Attainment

• Chapter Six

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Learning Concepts and Studying Thinking Research,
professional experience, and common sense lead
us to the proposition that Learning to think
about thinking is a major avenue to Learning
more and better To becoming smarter.
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Concept attainment was developed by Fred
Lighthall and Bruce Joyce, building on studies of
concept learning, to Enable students to learn
concepts efficiently, To study their thinking
and become more capable at forming and attaining
concepts.
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A pre-organized data set

• Whereas in the inductive model the teacher
  presents a data set and the students form the
  concepts . Or, the teacher and students build the
  data set and the students form the concepts. Or,
  students learn to build the data set and form the
  concepts.
• However, when a teacher has a concept a
  category whose members share one or more
  attributes -- and wishes to teach it, a data set
  is prepared made up of items that belong to the
  concept and items that do not share that
  attribute or one or more of the characteristics
  of a multiple-attribute category.

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Pairs of Concepts

• Positive Examplars

• Negative Examplars

• Contain the attributes of the category.

• Do not contain all the attributes of the concept.

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The pairs are presented to the students. Their
job is to attain the concept. Then they
study how to use it. Over several sessions
they study their strategy for arriving at
concepts and try to improve their processes.
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