Five Instructional Models Related to Learning Theory and Instructional Purpose

Instructional Model

Learning Cycle

Karplus and Their

Instructional Model

4E Learning Cycle

Instructional Model

Common Knowledge Construction Model

Instructional Model

5 E Learning Cycle

Instructional Model

Learning Cycle

Sunal and Sunal

Learning Theory

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Instructional Purpose

Exploration

Explore, Evaluate

Explore, categorize, construct, negotiate, reflect, assess,

Engagement, Exploration

Exploration

Students use their intuitive, procedural, or logical knowledge to make meaning.

They communicate their understandings and questions to themselves and in small groups, devise and conduct tests different ideas, and may or may not use the results to resolve any conflict they may or may not have.

If the process stops or there is no change -Assimilation

If a discrepancy is found between what the student anticipated and what was observed - Disequilibration

If after disequilibration, the student reflects, analyzes, and creates a new way of understanding — Accommodation

Focus students' attention

Diagnostic assessment

Communicate how to collect data to construct understanding

Explore, communicate, construct, negotiate, expand, and apply

Formative assessment

Invention

Explanation, Evaluate

Explore, categorize, construct, negotiate, reflect, assess,

Explanation

Invention

Students communicate their findings and understandings to the entire class.

Introduction of vocabulary for new conceptual understandings.

Description of organization and structure of concepts and their relationship to other concepts

Predication and inference

Concepts are taken to their limits through application, analysis, and synthesis. As students devise different ways to test and substantiate their learnings.

This communication may lead to disequilibration, assimilation, accommodation, and further structure changes.

Facilitate public discourse

Share ideas

Negotiate and communicate

Construct

Formative assessment

Summative assessment

Discovery

Expansions, Evaluate

Explore, categorize, construct, negotiate, reflect, assess, translate, and extend

Extensions, Evaluation

Expansion

All of the above with greater connection to the organization and structure to extend the concept by connecting what they have learned to other situations. Expand and apply

Generative assessment

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