Concept maps are used in a wide variety of disciplines because of their ability to make complex information structures explicit. Concept maps can be used informally or formally -where the graphical "syntax" of the maps is tightly controlled. Both forms are needed. Constraint Graphs is a program in which users can constrain arbitrary graphs to conform to any of a wide variety of graphical formal...

heading Concept maps, introduced by Novak, aid learners’ understanding. We hypothesize that concept maps also can function as a summary of large documents (e.g., ETDs). Our system automatically generates concept maps from English-language ETDs in the computing field. The system also will provide Spanish translations of these concept maps for native Spanish speakers. Because of the results of ou...

Concept Maps are used as a tool of the constructivist theory of Meaningful Learning. Just like domain ontologies, concept maps enable clarification of concepts and relationships of a domain. This article presents a learning assessment model supported by the use of concept maps and ontology alignment techniques, respectively for clarification of the organization of concepts in the student's cogn...

To be useful, automatic document classification systems must accurately place documents in categories that are meaningful to users. Because concept mapping externalizes humans’ conceptualizations of a domain, concept maps provide meaningful categories for organizing documents. Since electronic concept-mapping tools provide mechanisms for using concept maps for effective document access, using c...

Concept maps are graphical representations of cognitive knowledge structures. Although they were originally developed as a way to follow and understand changes in student knowledge, they have proven to be effective instructional tools. Concept maps consist of labeled nodes that represent concepts, or perceived regularities or patterns, and links that are labeled to indicate the relationships be...

Concept maps, visual representations of knowledge, are used in an educational context as a way to represent students’ knowledge, and identify mental models of students; however there is a limitation of using concept mapping due to its difficulty to evaluate the concept maps. A concept map has a complex structure which is composed of concepts and their relationships that often have a weighted di...

Concept maps, visual representations of knowledge, are used in an educational context as a way to represent students’ knowledge, and identify mental models of students; however there is a limitation of using concept mapping due to its difficulty to evaluate the concept maps. A concept map has a complex structure which is composed of concepts and their relationships that often have a weighted di...