This paper tests the effectiveness of concept mapping as a classroom technique and curricular tool. In it, I use survey data and semi-structured interviews to assess student perceptions of the learning and the impact of concept mapping. I find that concept maps are an excellent way to encourage thorough reading of complex texts. Concept maps are a simple, powerful tool that dramatically enhance...

Information visualization has been a research topic for many years, leading to a mature field where guidelines and practices are well established. Knowledge visualization, in contrast, is a relatively new area of research that has received more attention recently due to the interest from the business community in Knowledge Management. In this paper we present the CmapTools software as an exampl...

To assist users to access wanted services and information within a short attention span, personalization has gained tremendous importance. While systems such as recommenders for specific domains have been successfully deployed, there is no existing user-centric mechanism that can be utilized for all application domains. By capturing user’s interests and relationships among such interests, it is...

The automatic construction of concept maps from texts is still an ongoing research topic, especially when the map should represent, by means of concepts and relationships, a summarization of a complex text. We propose a new method for the automatic generation of concept maps. Based on an analysis of the limitations and best features of the state-of-the-art, this paper introduces a pipeline that...

Concept maps and knowledge maps, often used as learning materials, enable users to recognize important concepts and the relationships between them. For example, concept maps can be used to provide adaptive learning guidance for learners such as path systems for curriculum sequencing to improve the effectiveness of learning process. Generation of concept maps typically involve domain experts, wh...

Concept maps can be considered as a multi-resource in e-learning environments. Concept maps present a strong power of integration, navigable and meaningful representation. Under this point of view, a student centred framework can be approached, as the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) requires. In the present work, we show five types of different significant uses of concept maps for learnin...

This paper presents an exploratory study that investigated prospective teachers’ knowledge of concept mapping. Current research emphasizes concept mapping as an important tool in the classroom for teaching, learning and assessment of student learning. Despite the large number of studies on K-12 students’ use of concept mapping, there are very few studies on prospective teachers’ knowledge of co...

This abstract describes theapplication of concept mapping for assembling formation as a methodology for interpreting clinical data. This effort isintended to be a demonstration that concept mapping isa highly effective means of capturing the understanding of the problem domain associated with the expanding i formation available in today’s clinical environments. The use of concept mapping inconj...

In this paper, we present an application for formal concept analysis (FCA) by showing how it can help construct a semantic map for a lexical typological study. We show that FCA captures typological regularities, so that concept lattices automatically built from linguistic data appear to be even more informative than traditional semantic maps. While sometimes this informativeness causes unreadab...

The present work displays an investigation focused on the understanding of sociology institutionalization in Mexico, and if it is possible to be spoken of an academic crisis of sociology, as it is handled nowadays, besides an investigation that takes care of specific values of the sociological knowledge in the reality of each region in Mexico. This approach starts, firstly, in a study of the so...