Monthly Archives: August 2008
Advance Organizers and Schema Organized Memory
Ausubel Assimilation Theory Ausubel’s assimilation theory (1960, 1961, 1968) states that new information is linked to relevant, pre-existing aspects of cognitive structure and both the newly acquired information and the pre-existing structure are modified in the process to form a more highly differentiated cognitive structure. Ausubel promotes the idea that the most important issue influencing [...]
