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Final Project

iMET 9280 Fundamentals of Online Pedagogy

Presented By

Alex PattilloCeonita WilsonWanda Hardy

September 23, 2006

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Concept Attainment Model

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Concept Attainment Model

“a teaching approach that helps students develop skills for inductive and deductive thinking while at the same time learning subject matter in any field, in a constructive and meaningful way.” (Pritchard, 1994)

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Concept Attainment ModelPhases

1. Teacher presents data; students generate and test hypotheses.

2. Students confirm hypothesis and identify the characteristics of the concept.

3. Test attainment of the concept.

4. Students reflect on the thinking patterns that were used to attain the concept (metacognition)

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Concept Attainment ModelScenario

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Dark Chocolate Example

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Lots of Chocolate… ohhh chocolate…!

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Part A Yes or No

Dark Chocolate Sample 1 Sample 3 Sample 5

Non-Dark Chocolate Sample 4 Sample 6 Sample 2

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Task 2: additional data

Label the blank columns on your data

Sheet and fill in the data for each sample.

Column 5: % of cacao Column 6: Ingredients are

chocolate followed by sugar

Complete your hypothesis

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Part BYes or No

Dark Chocolate Sample 7 Sample 8 Sample 10 Sample 12

Non Dark Chocolate Sample 9 Sample 11

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More Chocolate… yummy!

Don’t forget to think about your previous observation!

Did you update your original hypotheses?

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Dark Chocolate is….

FDA regulates that dark chocolate must contain a minimum of 35% chocolate liquor as the primary ingredient

Sugar must be the secondary ingredient

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Conclusion

CAM is useful for all ages to help learners construct abstract or concrete concepts. In this lesson, culinary students were able to deduce a definitive concept that will enable them to distinguish dark chocolate from other varieties of chocolate.

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References

Concept Attainment Chocolate Other sample lessons

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Q and A???

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Thank You!

Alex Ceonita

Wanda