Generative strategies, where learners process the target content while connecting different concepts to build a knowledge network, has shown potential to improve student learning outcomes. While concept maps in particular have been linked to the development of generative strategies, few studies have explored structuring the concept mapping process to support generative strategies, and few studi...

Concept maps have been used for knowledge assessment already for several decades. At the same time no extensive overview has been made on possible concept mapping tasks and no formal methods have been developed for comparing the degree of difficulty of different assessment tasks based on concept maps. There are only some research studies on task characterization, task comparison, use of differe...

Background Concept maps are considered not only as a powerful method of meaningful learning, but also as an instrument for evaluating the efficiency of learning. Different inquiries suggest that concept maps by promoting critical thinking and clinical reasoning may play a significant role in increasing adherence to infection prevention methods and therefore reduce healthcare-associated infectio...

From the point of view of mapping transformation, this paper presents a map generalization concept framework which regards generalization as two kinds of mapping procedures: spatial entity mapping and spatial relation mapping. According to the number change of participating entity, spatial entity mapping is classified as 1-1, n-1, n-n mapping. And spatial relation mapping is described as a comp...

The use of computer-based concept mapping as a prewriting strategy for eighthgrade language art students was compared to paper-and-pencil concept mapping. Computer-based concept mapping was shown to enhance idea generation and the total quality of the students’ prewriting concept maps in preparation for a persuasive writing task. Contrary to expectation, the students who generated paper-and-pen...

background: positive attitude leads to a more successfully implementation of a change. we investigated the effect of attitudes of stakeholders toward a program on their prioritization of the program components for selecting the key question of a theory-driven evaluation with concept mapping method. materials and methods: during a brainstorming session, stated statements defined the program comp...

INTRODUCTION Concept mapping is a structured conceptualization process that provides a visual representation of relationships among ideas. Concept mapping was used to develop a logic model for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Prevention Research Centers Program, which has a large and diverse group of stakeholders throughout the United States. No published studies have used conce...