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...

This paper considers a group of preservice teachers’ construction of concept maps derived from y=x+5 and y= x with emphasis on their conceptual understanding of function. The two statements are perceived to represent a number of different concepts with indications of compartmentalized knowledge structures that might prevent the preservice teachers from building rich conceptual structures. The p...

This text is devoted to a literature review of concept maps and concept mapping. An overall idea emerges : on the one hand, concept maps are useful tools for designers, to structure their products, but, on the other hand, ready-made concept maps might not be so useful for learning. For the learner, the process of creating and/or modifying concept maps seems to be much better. Evidence is collec...

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 compared the efficacy of these two methods on retention, understanding and problem solving in the biology keeping in the mind the fact that student's learning style has a role as a moderator variable. the intervening effects on retention, understanding and problem solving were measured by two academic achievement tests that those have the confirmable validity and reliability indexes....

This paper stands up as an argument for a broadening of the methods used in the science teaching process. The main goal of the authors is to point out ways of achieving learning excellence by usage of modern educational means. This bold aim can be reached by resorting to concept maps within the teaching and evaluation processes. We focus upon the advantages of this method taking as an example a...

This chapter argues that the computer-aided scientific knowledge discovery tool should facilitate scientific knowledge development through assisting scientists to build first-person knowledge and thirdperson knowledge. The chapter reviews cognitive theories of human knowledge construction and presents a hydrological modelling scenario as an exemplar of these concepts. A number of challenges for...

factors of educational ICT projects: A group concept mapping approach.

This article proposes a framework of quality indicators for learning analytics that aims to standardise the evaluation of learning analytics tools and to provide a mean to capture evidence for the impact of learning analytics on educational practices in a standardised manner. The criteria of the framework and its quality indicators are based on the results of a Group Concept Mapping study condu...