Descriptor
| Advance Organizers | 2 |
| Difficulty Level | 2 |
| Teaching Methods | 2 |
| Achievement Gains | 1 |
| Business Education | 1 |
| Classification | 1 |
| Cognitive Processes | 1 |
| Comprehension | 1 |
| Concept Formation | 1 |
| Concept Teaching | 1 |
| Learning Processes | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Journal of Education for… | 1 |
Author
| Andre, Thomas | 1 |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 1 |
| Reports - General | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewedJournal of Education for Business, 1986
Research on the usefulness of metaphors as an aid to teaching statistics shows that students taught with metaphors learned more, defined terms more accurately, made more successful inferences, and made fewer errors. (CH)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Advance Organizers, Business Education, Comprehension
Download full textAndre, Thomas – 1977
A model is proposed for memory that stresses a distinction between episodic memory for encoded personal experience and semantic memory for abstractors and generalizations. Basically, the model holds that questions influence the nature of memory representations formed during instruction, and that memory representation controls the way in which…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
