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Understanding Knowledge Models of Simple Events (Learning from Exposition).
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Mosenthal, Peter B.; Kirsch, Irwin S. – Journal of Reading, 1992
Presents three types of simple events knowledge models: (1) a simple list of events; (2) a list of cause-effect sequences; and (3) a list of events that describe a problem and its solution. (SR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Content Area Reading, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Understanding Knowledge Acquisition from a Knowledge Model Perspective (Learning from Exposition).
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Mosenthal, Peter B; Kirsch, Irwin S. – Journal of Reading, 1992
Defines and describes the processes by which students acquire new knowledge: accretion, tuning, and restructuring. Relates these processes to knowledge models presented in earlier columns. Discusses extension activities. (RS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Content Area Reading, High Schools, Learning Processes
Understanding Process Knowledge Models (Learning from Exposition).
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Kirsch, Irwin S.; Mosenthal, Peter B. – Journal of Reading, 1992
Considers event phenomena and how such phenomena might be understood in terms of process knowledge models. Presents the step and stage process knowledge model, the classification process knowledge model, and the conditional process knowledge model. (SR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Content Area Reading, High Schools, Learning Processes
Understanding Cases and Classes through Knowledge Modeling (Learning from Exposition).
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Kirsch, Irwin S.; Mosenthal, Peter B. – Journal of Reading, 1992
Discusses helping students understand cases and classes through knowledge modeling. Discusses classification and human cognition, and classification and pictorial knowledge models. Provides classroom extension activities. (SR)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Structures, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education