The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of two different types of interviews—one that did (POSTICM) and one that did not (POSTI) embed a concept-mapping process—to elicit students’ postinstructional understandings about chlorofluorocarbons and their role in global atmospheric change (GAC). A chief criterion measure was accordance, the degree to which students held...

e-Learning is able to realize effective education by low cost, it also has problem it is difficult to know for teacher situation of learners. As a related idea, concept map has been presented in pedagogical literature, and it can more easily and rapidly represent a part of learner’s understanding without written and oral examination. In our research, we have studied supporting individual learni...

We present a way to do a systematic analysis of the learning teaching process when using a concept map, though the modified Bloom taxonomy. We are dealing with a two dimensional reference system in a form of a taxonomy table, where one dimension consider different types of knowledge and the other dimension consider different types of cognitive process involved in teaching and learning. When we ...

In this paper we describe the architecture of an e-learning environment that blends concept maps with Online Labs (OLabs) to enhance student performance in biology. In the Indian context, a secondary school student’s conceptual understanding of hard topics in biology is at risk because of a lack of qualified teachers and necessary equipments in labs to conduct experiments. Concept map provides ...

This paper presents a case study of an eight-year teaching experiences junior high school teacher conducting the concept map as a mathematical teaching and learning tool to enhance her professional knowledge. Data collection for the study included the subject’s interviews, classroom observations, the subjects' teacher professional development community discussion sessions, teaching videotaping,...

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...

This paper discusses both a new measurement method and a performance scoring method in comparison with concept maps drawn by individual students with the concept map drawn by the teacher. However, it is very difficult to evaluate the degree of similarity between a pair of concept maps. Therefore, this paper presents a quantitative evaluation measure of similarity between a pair of maps by consi...