Concept Attainment Worksheet to Enhance Concept Knowledge and Science Process Skills in Physics Instruction

Concept-based Instruction and Teaching English Tense and Aspect to Iranian School Learners

The present study examines the role of Gal’perin’s Concept-based Instruction (CBI) as a pedagogical approach in teaching cognitive grammar-based (CG-based) concepts of tense and aspect to EFL students. Following the sociocultural theory of L2 Acquisition (SCT), arming L2 learners with scientific concepts can lead to L2 development by deepening their understanding and raising awareness of L2 str...

Compression the Effect of Clinical Concept Mapping & Nursing Process in Developing Nursing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills

Introduction: Development of critical thinking and clinical education has remained a serious and considerable challenge throughout the nursing educational system in Iran. Education experts believe that effective teaching methods such as concept mapping and nursing process are practical strategies for critical development. Thus, this study was carried out to compare the effectiveness of clinical...

TITLE Concept Attainment , Transfer , and Retention Through

The effects of observing a model and of providing a response rule on the-leran-ing,/itransfer, and retention of a dial-reading, numerical concept were studied in 144 third-graders. Different experimenters conducted the immediate learning procedures versus the measurements of retention. No extrinsic reinforcers were promised or dispensed. The children profited both from modeling and from rule-pr...

Experience and concept attainment : some critical remarks

The aim of this paper is to reconsider certain assumptions about conceptual structure which have become influential in recent Cognitive Science and which are associated in particular with the Cognitive Linguistics research agenda. I will outline three areas within the Cognitive Linguistics theory of concepts which seem to create some difficulties in their present formulation: the 'embodied cogn...

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