AUSUBEL’S MEANINGFUL

VERBAL LEARNING/
SUBSUMPTION THEORY
Meaningful Reception of Information

is a learning theory of instruction

proposed by Ausubel who believed that
learners can learn best when the new
material being taught can be anchored
into existing cognitive information in the
learners.
 LEARNER’S COGNITIVE STRUCTURE

= the most important factor influencing

learning.
= this present knowledge consists of facts,
concepts, propositions, theories and raw
perceptual data that the learner has
available to him/ her at any point.
 USE OF ADVANCE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

• The way to strenghten thestudents

cognitive structure , that allow students
to already have a bird’s eye view or to
see the “big picture” of the topic to be
learned even before going to the details.
a process by which new material is
related to relevant ideas in the existing
cognitive structure.
 SUBSUMPTION
a process by which new material is
related to relevant ideas in the existing
cognitive structure.