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TheConcept Mastery Routine
The Content Enhancement Series
1999The University of Kansas
Center for Research on LearningLawrence, Kansas 66045
University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning 5/99 CM Overhead # 2
Content Enhancement
A way of teaching an academically diverse group of students in which:
– Both group and individual needs are valued and met;
– The integrity of the content is maintained;
University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning 5/99 CM Overhead # 3
Content Enhancement
A way of teaching an academically diverse group of students in which:
– Critical features of the content are selected and transformed in a manner that promotes student learning; and
– Instruction is carried out in a partnership with students.
University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning 5/99 CM Overhead # 4
The Concept Diagram Teaching Device
• Is a visual device that:
– is used under teacher guidance
– facilitates teaching about an important but
different concept
– focuses attention on the overall concept
– identifies critical characteristics of the concept
– prompts elaboration based on prior knowledge
– helps students analyze the differences between
examples and nonexamples of the concept
University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning 5/99 CM Overhead # 5
The Concept Diagram Teaching Device
• Is a visual device that:
– provides a way for students to practice with new
examples
– guides in creating good definitions
– is designed to enhance student
• understanding of new concepts
• remembering of ways to think about information
• responses to evaluation tasks and activities
• belief in the value of the content
University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning 5/99 CM Overhead # 6
CONCEPT DIAGRAM
Always Present Sometimes Present Never Present
Examples: Nonexamples:
TIE DOWN A DEFINITION
EXPLORE EXAMPLES
Key Words
PRACTICE WITH NEW EXAMPLE
CONVEY CONCEPT
NOTE KEY WORDS
OFFER OVERALL CONCEPT
CLASSIFYCHARACTERISTICS
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Important Terms
Concept
A category or class into which events, ideas, or subjects can be grouped. All members of the came concept class must possess all of a set of critical characteristics.
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Important Terms
Concept
– In social studies, concepts include government,
revolution, and electoral process.
– In science, concepts include igneous rocks,
vertebrates, and evolution.
– In English, concepts include a sentence, sonnet,
and simile.
– In mathematics, concepts include triangle,
algorithm, and multiplication
University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning 5/99 CM Overhead # 9
Important Terms
Overall Concept
The category or class into which the targeted concept
and similar concepts can be grouped.
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Important Terms
Characteristic
Things that set examples of a concept apart from
examples of all other concepts. Other words for
"characteristics" include "qualities," "traits," or
"attributes."
University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning 5/99 CM Overhead # 11
Important Terms
Examples
Individual things, events, ideas, or processes
– possess all of the "always characteristics”
– possess none of the "never characteristics”
– may contain some of the "sometimes
characteristics"
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Important Terms
Nonexamples
Individual things, events, ideas, or processes
– lack at least one of the "always characteristics”
or
– have at least one of the "never characteristics"
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Important Terms
Definition
Includes the following in a complete sentence:
– the name of the targeted Concept
– the name of the Overall Concept
– all of the Always Characteristics that must be
present in all examples of the concept class
– any special rule joining the Always
Characteristics
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CONCEPT DIAGRAM
Always Present Sometimes Present Never Present
Examples: Nonexamples:
TIE DOWN A DEFINITION
EXPLORE EXAMPLES
Key Words
PRACTICE WITH NEW EXAMPLE
CONVEY CONCEPT
NOTE KEY WORDS
OFFER OVERALL CONCEPT
CLASSIFYCHARACTERISTICS
elephant
human
warm-blooded
nurse the young
whale
bird
shark
walk on 4 legs
can fly
cold-blooded
Mammal Vertebrate
warm-blooded
nurse the young
has hair
walks on 2 legs
walks on 4 legs
swims in water
can fly
moves on the ground
is cold-blooded
human
elephant
whale
bat
snake
alligator
shark
bird
A mammal is a warm-blooded vertebrate that has hair and nurses its young.
duckbill platypus