Cone of Experience

He was a US educationist who developed the famous Cone of experience.

• Stephen Krashen

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Edgar Dale

• Benjamin Bloom

The cone of experience a visual model composed of 11 stages starting from abstract experiences at the bottom of the cone then it becomes more and more concrete as it reaches the peak of the cone.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The arrangement in the cone is not based on its difficulty but rather based on abstraction and on the number of students involved.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The more senses that are involved in learning, the more and better the learning will be, but it does not mean that _______ is the only effective experience that educators should use in transferring knowledge to the learner.

• Abstract Experiences

• Concrete Experience

• Field trips

• Exhibits

In this level, the learner learned by doing things by him/herself. This level serves as the foundation of learning.

• Study Trips

• Contrived Experiences

• Direct Purposeful Experiences

• Dramatized Experiences

In this level, representative models and mock-ups of reality are being used in order to provide an experience that as close as reality.

• Contrived Experiences

• Demonstrations

• Study Trips

• Dramatized experiences

The students were asked by their teacher to deliver their own speeches in front of the class. Under what level in the cone of experience will it fall?

• Contrived Experiences

• Demonstrations

• Direct Purposeful Experiences

• Dramatized Experiences

The teacher used Venn diagrams in discussing the similarities and differences of the two characters in the short story. Under what level in the cone of experience will it fall?

• Visual Symbols

• Demonstration

• Verbal Symbols

• Contrived experience

The teacher used a globe in discussing latitude and longitude in the class. Under what level in the cone of experience will it fall?

• Contrived Experiences

• Demonstrations

• Study trips

• Dramatization

The students were asked by their Teacher to conduct a role play about the story Macbeth written by Shakespeare. Under what level in the cone of experiences will it fall?

• Dramatized Experiences

• Exhibits

• Contrived Experiences

• Televisions and motion pictures