How to earn this micro-credential badge
Micro-credentials in the SIM series enable teachers to verify skills in delivering instruction of the SIM Learning Strategies and Content Enhancement Routines and other educational programs offered through the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. To earn the micro-credential badge:
- Click the green “join this badge” button and sign up/sign in if needed.
- Post your evidence specified in the “Required Evidence” section by clicking on the blue “Post” buttons, or you can click into the Evidence section and post from there.
The Concept Mastery Routine enables teachers to present complex, abstract concepts in a manner that will help students understand and apply the concept. Through use of the routine, teachers and students identify a target concept and its place within a larger framework, explore students' prior knowledge of the concept, identify important characteristics of the concept, analyze examples and non-examples, create a definition, and test more examples and non-examples to determine whether they belong to the concept group.
Research shows that use of the routine by secondary teachers benefits students in several ways. Students scored significantly better on tests designed to assess concept acquisition. Students also scored significantly better on regularly scheduled, teacher-made or commercial unit tests after introduction of theConcept Mastery Routine than before. Gains by students with learning disabilities (from a mean score of 60 percent to 71 percent) were comparable to those of their peers without learning disabilities (from a mean score of 72 percent to 87 percent) on these regular tests. The percentage of students with learning disabilities who passed increased from 57 percent to 75 percent; the percentage of students without learning disabilities who passed increased from 68 percent to 97 percent. Students also took better notes when teachers used the routine.
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