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Do Advance Organizers Facilitate Learning? Recommendations for Further Research Based on an Analysis of 32 Studies
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Written materials are now and are likely to remain an important resource in the classroom. A perennial concern of educators is the preparation and use of materials that are organized in such way as to maximize learning. David P. Ausubel, in his theory of meaningful verbal learning, advocates the use of advance organizers to facilitate the learning of written materials. The purpose of the organizer, according to Ausubel (1963, p. 23), is to relate the potentially meaningful materials to be learned to the already existing cognitive structure of the learner. It is his assumption that the learner's cognitive structure is organized hierarchically in terms of highly inclusive conceptual traces under which are subsumed less inclusive subconcepts as well as specific informational data. Based on this assumption, Ausubel (1963) recommends that advance organizers be written at a higher level of abstraction, generality, and inclusiveness than the learning task itself
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- Authors
- Barnes, B. R., & Clawson, E. U.
- Affiliations
- Georgia State University (US)
- University of the Pacific (US)
- Venue
- Review of Educational Research
- Published
- 1975-12
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 637-659
- ISSN
- 0034-6543 (ISSN-L)
- 1935-1046
- OpenAlex
- W2128603512
- Cited by
- 186
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 13.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Review of Educational Research (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational methodologies and cognitive development
- Keywords
- advance organizers, Ausubel, cognitive structure, concept hierarchy, learning facilitation, instructional design
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