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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"concept map"”.
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Analysis of the Psychometric Properties of Two Different Concept-Map Assessment Tasks
… their knowledge either with words or visually. Concept maps have been used as tools by researchers and educators alike to assist students in understanding the conceptual interrelationships within a subject domain. One concept-map assessment in particular known as the construct-a-map task has …
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Creativity training effects upon concept map complexity of children with ADHD: an experimental study
… the effects of creativity training upon concept mapping complexity. To verify whether the CoRT Thinking Lessons can enhance creative ability and improve concept map complexity, a Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design was used in this study. Sixty four students who are fourth and fifth …
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Promoting Conceptual Understanding via Adaptive Concept Maps
… the feasibility and effectiveness of a scalable concept map based navigation system for a digital textbook. A literature review has been conducted to identify possible methods to promote conceptual understanding in the context of a digital textbook, and these hypothesized solutions will be …
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Metaphor and Content: An Embodied Paradigm for Learning
… application of two cognitive science theories, conceptual metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999) and structure mapping (Gentner, 1983, 1989; Gentner & Markman, 1995), this project defined an instructional design model for the design, development, and assessment of metaphor-enhanced, …
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The Effects of Elaborative Vocabulary Instruction on the Vocabulary, Written Explanations, and Knowledge Structures of Sixth-Grade Students With and Without Disabilities
… strategy instruction on the vocabulary scores, concept map scores, explanatory writing, and self-efficacy and attitudes towards writing of 104 sixth-grade students with and without disabilities enrolled in an urban charter public middle school. The study was conducted over a four-week period. …
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Knowledge convergence in collaborative concept mapping among radiographic physics undergraduates
… research questions. First, does collaborative concept mapping enhance group members' knowledge convergence? Second, how does students' participation in interaction influence their knowledge convergence? The students first submitted an individual concept map to represent their solution of an …
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A computational model for task-adapted knowledge organisation: improving learning through concept maps extracted from lecture slides.
… a framework for automatically generating concept maps from lecture slides. A concept map is recognised as a valuable educational visualisation tool, which assists students in organising, sharing and representing knowledge. Expert maps (also known as expert concept maps) are prepared by …
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The use of Software Program Inspiration and its Effect on the Reading Comprehension of Students With Disabilities
… students reading a short story then creating web maps of the story plot. Following the completion of the web map, the students took a ten question comprehension quiz. This was done for seven sessions. During another seven sessions the students took comprehension quizzes without the use of the web …
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Effects of format and student completion of concept maps on college students' learning
"Concept mapping, one type of spatial learning strategy, is widely studied for its positive effects on learning. Although much research has been conducted to provide evidence of its effectiveness, very little work has been done on the impact of formats and learner completion of concept maps on …
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Development of a Knowledge Assessment System Based on Concept Maps and Differential Weighting Approaches
… created as a result of this study is based on concept maps and employs two differential weighting approaches. It is a developmental study, which includes the design phase, development phase and evaluation phase. The general software system design model (Sommerville, 2009) was adopted to guide …
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Effectiveness of Concept Maps in Learning from a Computer-Based Instructional Video Resource
… investigate the effectiveness of two different concept mapping methods - learner-generated and expert-generated concept mapping - in computer-based video learning. The students? attitudes toward the use of the concept mapping and computer-based instruction in general were also investigated. The …
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Improving Metacomprehension And Learning Through Graduated Concept Mod
… learning. Accordingly, using the Graduated Concept Model Development (GCMD) approach, the role of learner-generated concept model development in facilitating metacomprehension and knowledge acquisition was examined. Concept maps have had many roles in the learning process as mental model …
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Interactive Multimedia in Digital Courses: Design and Evaluation of Concept Maps Glossary and Narration Support
… students' comprehension of the course core concepts. Glossary terms have complex interrelationship that cannot be fully illustrated by standard approaches, e.g., including all the terms as a linear, alphabetized list. To overcome this limitation, we introduce an interactive design for the …
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THE SALIENT MAP ANALYSIS FOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING (SMART) METHOD: POWERFUL POTENTIAL AS A FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES.
… development and characterization of the Salient Map Analysis for Research and Teaching (SMART) method as a formative assessment tool and 2) a case study exploring how a paramedic instructor’s beliefs about learners affect her utilization of the SMART method and vice versa. The first study …
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Building technical process innovation capability: An intra-organisational perspective
… innovation capability by means of a graphical concept map. However, due to the breadth of the investigated innovation stage-gate model which starts with a stimulus for innovation and proceeds through various stages of design and industrialisation to an innovation introduced into practice, some …
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Social enterprise business models: identifying the trading concepts that inform them.
… Four research questions are addressed using concept mapping and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). These research methods combine qualitative insights with quantitative analysis, provide transparent research processes, allow for contextual generalizations, and offer deeper insight into …
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A Knowledge Map-Centric Feedback-Based Approach to Information Modeling and Academic Assessment
… have learned. This method uses comprehensive concept maps to depict all of the concepts and relationships an educator intends to cover and student maps to depict the subset of knowledge that students have mastered. Concept inventories are used as an assessment tool to determine, at the …
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USING A VIRTUAL WORLD FOR SCIENCE INSTRUCTION WITH FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS
… were given a pretest and posttest (in concept map form and unit test in essay form). Objectives were taught using a combination of lecture, discussion, and in class activities. The unit also contained three virtual world activities. Following each virtual world activity, students were …
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The Assessment Agent System: Assessing Comprehensive Understanding Based on Concept Maps
… assessing comprehensive understanding based on concept maps. The system was designed by following an agent-oriented software design method. The Assessment Agent System is composed of five types of software agents: instructor agent, student agent, management agent, assessment agent, and reporting …
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