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Concept Attainment Model (CAM)
The Concept Attainment Model (CAM), developed by Jerome Bruner, is a teaching strategy that helps students learn by actively categorizing and identifying the defining attributes of a concept through examples and non-examples.
· Concept Attainment Model (CAM) was developed from the work of Jerome S. Bruner and his associates (1956) on the cognitive activity called categorizing.
· Syntax
1.     Presentation of data and identification of concept
1.1.Teacher presents labelled examples
1.2.Students compare attributes in positive and negative examples
1.3.Students generate and test hypotheses
1.4.Students state a definition according to the essential attributes
2.     Testing attainment of the concept
2.1.Students identify additional unlabelled examples as Yes/No
2.2.Teacher confirms hypotheses, names concept and restates definitions according to essential attributes
2.3.Students generate examples
3.     Analysis of thinking Strategies
3.1.Students describe thoughts
3.2.Students discuss the role of hypothesis and attributes
3.3.Students discuss type and number of hypotheses