Match the List – A and List – B List – A a. Bruner b. Ausubel c. Glasser d.…
2019
Match the List – A and List – B List – A a. Bruner b. Ausubel c. Glasser d. Gordon List – B I. Basic teaching model II. Synectics teaching model III. Advance organiser teaching model IV. Concept attainment teaching model V. Inquiry training model
- A.
a – III
b – I
c – II
d – V - B.
a – IV
b – III
c – II
d – I - C.
a – IV
b – III
c – I
d – II - D.
a – I
b – II
c – III
d – V
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Correct answer: C
Educational psychologists have proposed distinct "models of teaching" — structured instructional frameworks, each organised around one specific psychological principle of how a concept or skill is best acquired. Four such models are relevant here: the Concept Attainment Model (a learner builds a category by comparing examples and non-examples), the Advance Organiser Model (a broad conceptual framework is presented before the detailed content, to anchor new learning onto what the learner already knows), Synectics (analogy and metaphor are used to make the unfamiliar familiar and stimulate creative problem-solving), and the Basic Teaching Model (a systematic objectives-to-assessment instructional sequence).
Theorist (List A) | Model (List B) | Defining mechanism |
|---|---|---|
Bruner | IV. Concept attainment teaching model | Builds a concept from examples and non-examples |
Ausubel | III. Advance organiser teaching model | Presents a broad framework before the details, anchoring new content to prior knowledge |
Glasser | I. Basic teaching model | A systematic objectives → instruction → assessment sequence |
Gordon | II. Synectics teaching model | Uses analogy and metaphor to drive creative problem-solving |
This gives the matching a–IV, b–III, c–I, d–II.
Each of the other listed combinations swaps at least one theorist away from the model built on that theorist's own defining mechanism:
A combination that pairs Bruner with the framework-before-detail technique or Ausubel with the example/non-example technique confuses the two mechanisms — one introduces a broad structure first, the other builds a category from instances, and they belong to different theorists.
A combination that pairs Gordon with the objectives-to-assessment sequence, or Glasser with the analogy/metaphor technique, swaps the creative-thinking mechanism (Synectics) with the systematic instructional-design mechanism (Basic Teaching Model) — these two techniques serve opposite purposes and belong to different theorists.
A combination that links any of these four theorists to the Inquiry Training model confuses this set with a fifth, unrelated model — Inquiry Training (associated with Suchman) is not attributed to Bruner, Ausubel, Glasser, or Gordon.
Hence, the combination a–IV, b–III, c–I, d–II is the correct matching.