This paper examines what can be learned about bodies of literature using a concept mapping tool, Leximancer. Statistical content analysis and concept mapping were used to analyse bodies of literature from different domains in three case studies. In the first case study, concept maps were generated and analysed for two closely related document sets—a thesis on language games and the background l...

Acknowledging that individuals' preferences for learning vary, faculty in an undergraduate nursing program questioned whether a student's learning style is an indicator of aptitude in developing concept maps. The purpose of this research was to describe the relationship between nursing students' learning style preference and aptitude for concept maps. The sample included 120 undergraduate stude...

Concept maps have been widely put to educational uses. But concept maps in the past were limited in their assessment standards. Some only take concept nodes into consideration; other evaluation criteria use concept nodes as the basis, with relation links playing a minor role. To address this problem, this study proposes a new style of concept map, called weighted concept map, which assigns a we...

Concept map is a graphical technique for representing knowledge, successfully used in different areas, including education, knowledge management, business and intelligence. In this paper, an overview of different approaches to automatic creation of concept maps from textual and non-textual sources is given. Concept map mining process is defined, and one method for creation of concept maps from ...

In this paper we present a methodology for creating concept map exercises for students. Concept mapping is a common pedagogical exercise in which students generate a graphical model of some domain. Our method automatically extracts knowledge representations from a textbook and uses them to generate concept maps. The purpose of the study is to generate and evaluate these concept maps according t...

In this article we present a study case on the use of concept maps as a strategy for the development of technical reports on industrial engineering problems. These problems occur in complex, multidisciplinary environments that require the application of technical and social systems knowledge which is analyzed by an engineer in order to propose effective and efficient solutions. This case seeks ...

Concept maps are frequently used in K 12 educational settings. The purpose of this study is to determine whether students’ performance on interactive concept map tasks in Guru, an intelligent tutoring system, is related to immediate and delayed learning outcomes. Guru is a dialogue based system for high school biology that intersperses concept map tasks within the tutorial dialogue. Results ind...

This paper presents a semi-automatic framework that aims to produce domain concept maps from text and then to derive domain ontologies from these concept maps. This methodology particularly targets the eLearning and AIED (Artificial Intelligence in Education) communities as they need such structures to sustain the production of eLearning resources tailored to learners’ needs. This paper details...

Abstract. Concept maps have been used more and more frequently in the pedagogical context. (Dutra, 2004, Moreira 1997). This work, though, aims to investigate the relation between teachers and concept maps. To do so, we have elaborated three workshops for teachers from State schools in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in different occasions and different schools. In order to assess such rel...

Concept maps, or mind maps as learning tools mirror the knowledge constructed through observation of events or objects in relation to the concepts already known. Different types of computer based concept mapping tools allow various forms of expressions and the versatility of some special tools promote their use from providing course maps for users to adaptations of learners knowledge maps. Modu...