Abstract A concept map is a visualisation of group related concepts with their relationships identified by directed arrows, which can be viewed as an externalisation schema encoded in learner’s long-term memory. Concept maps have become popular learning tools various educational settings. However, the existing research has not fully explored effectiveness mapping tool nor analysed its utility a...

Concept maps as a pedagogical tool have stable positions in education being used for teaching, learning and knowledge assessment. The paper gives an insight into essence of concept maps and their usage for knowledge assessment. The concept map based adaptive intelligent knowledge assessment system (IKAS) is described. The kernel of IKAS is the intelligent knowledge assessment agent which is imp...

The intent of the article is to provide experience-based, basic, practical observations regarding expert knowledge elicitation with concept maps. This article contains a description of techniques for the interactive, collaborative construction of concept maps by a domain expert and a facilitator (who is typically not a domain expert) and the selection or creation of accompanying resources. Afte...

Five eighth grade science classes of students in at a middle school were assigned to three treatment groups: those who individually concept mapped, those who collaboratively concept mapped, and those who independently used their study time. The findings revealed that individually generating concept maps on computers during study time positively influenced science concept learning above and beyo...