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Alberto J. Cañas; Priit Reiska; Oleg Shvaikovsky – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2023
It is widely accepted that concept maps are a meaningful learning tool. Even so, the use of concept mapping as a meaningful learning tool is probably less common than the use of concept mapping as an assessment tool. In first place, the easiest thing to with a student's concept map is to apply a rubric and give it a grade. And second, teachers…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Teaching Methods, Electronic Learning, Elementary Schools
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Inel, Yusuf; Urhan, Emrah – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2020
This study aims to find out the effect of activities and practices on concept education to help carry out activities to teach these concepts more effectively and permanently, and determine student preconceptions about the concepts related to the landforms in the 5th-grade social studies curriculum in the learning subdomain called "People,…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Concept Teaching, Geographic Concepts, Physical Geography
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Yang, Hsiu-Ting; Wang, Kuo-Hua – Research in Science Education, 2014
Improving students scientific explanations is one major goal of science education. Both writing activities and concept mapping are reported as effective strategies for enhancing student learning of science. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a teaching model, named the DCI model, which integrates a Descriptive explanation…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Elementary School Students, Models