Concept maps (which show the relationship among concepts) are often discussed in the field of education as elements that facilitate the learning experience. In this study, I analyzed whether the concept maps used by knowledge organization researchers employ semiotic theory. I examined the following conference proceedings in their entirety: The International Society for Knowledge Organization (I...

Concept mapping is widely used in educational settings to aid knowledge construction, sharing, and comparison, as well as to assess students’ understanding. However, despite this rich range of uses, there have been few controlled studies of the relationship between concept maps and people’s internal conceptualizations. Because concept maps represent information as a network of concepts, an inte...

The present study describes the effect of concept maps on learners’ achievement and interest for classroom teaching of the second law of thermodynamics to engineering students. Learners are encouraged to develop their individual concept maps of the second law of thermodynamics. The scores of the learners’ concept maps are compared with the score of the expert map developed by the teacher. After...

Concept maps represent a rich structure to store and picture information or knowledge in form of concept-to-concept relations. There are several methods proposed for concept map analysis, based usually on concept and relation comparison, topological analysis of the map and others. One of the traditional applications of concept maps is the evaluation of the student’s knowledge, enabling to ident...