The present study deals with the implementation of concept mapping in grade 5 of German high school. Concept mapping was used as a means of knowledge consolidation. In order to check, if concept mapping positively affects a student’s knowledge gain we compared two instructional treatments: a hands-on instruction with an additional concept mapping phase for knowledge consolidation and a hands-on...

Background:For a medical student to blossom into competent doctor with critical thinkingand decision-making skills, appropriate learning techniques that will enhance his anddevelop higher-order thinking skills are needed. Concept mapping is technique thatcreates mind map. It serves represent information in structured format linkage and sequencing.
 Objective:This article describes concept ...

To learn the meaning of a new word, children must solve two distinct problems: identify the referent under ambiguity and determine how to generalize that word’s meaning to new objects. Traditionally, these two problems have been addressed separately in the literature, despite their tight relationship with one another. We present a hierarchical Bayesian model that jointly infers both the referen...