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ERIC Number: EJ168850
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1977
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The Use of Advance Organizers in the Learning and Retention of Logical Operations and Social Studies Concepts
Lawton, Joseph T.
American Educational Research Journal, 14, 1, 25-43, Win 77
The results of this investigation are generally supportive of the hypothesis that the learning of prior presented high-order concepts and rules can result in both a facilitation and acceleration of the learning of meaningfully related subject-matter concepts and logical operations. (Author)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Intentional Learning, Logical Thinking, Retention (Psychology), Social Studies, Transfer of Training
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Identifiers: Piagetian Theory