background: enhancing nursing students’ critical thinking is a challenge faced by nurse educators. this study aimed at determiningthe effect of clinical concept mapping on discipline-based critical thinking of nursing students. materials and methods: in this quasi-experimental post-test only design, a convenient sample of 4th year nursing students (n = 32)participated. they were randomly divide...

This study was an attempt to investigate the comparative impact of concept map and mind map instruc- tion on EFL learners’ descriptive and narrative writing. To fulfill this purpose, 60 intermediate EFL learners were selected from among a total number of 100 through their performance on a pretest, i.e., a piloted sample Cambridge Preliminary English Test (PET). T...

Concept maps, or mind maps as learning tools mirror the knowledge constructed through observation of events or objects in relation to the concepts already known. Different types of computer based concept mapping tools allow various forms of expressions and the versatility of some special tools promote their use from providing course maps for users to adaptations of learners knowledge maps. Modu...