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Laura Jimenez Snelson – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Concept maps provide a way to assess how well students have developed an organized understanding of how the concepts taught in a unit are interrelated and fit together. However, concept maps are challenging to score because of the idiosyncratic ways in which students organize their knowledge (McClure, Sonak, & Suen, 1999). The construct a map…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Scoring Rubrics, Test Reliability, Interrater Reliability
Asay, Loretta Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Analogies are ubiquitous during instruction in science classrooms, yet research about the effectiveness of using analogies has produced mixed results. An aspect seldom studied is a model of instruction when using analogies. The few existing models for instruction with analogies have not often been examined quantitatively. The Teaching With…
Descriptors: Science Education, Logical Thinking, Concept Mapping, Science Instruction
Lim, Kyu Yon – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of concept mapping strategies with different levels of generativity in terms of knowledge acquisition and knowledge representation. Also, it examined whether or not learners' self-regulated learning (SRL) skills influenced the effectiveness of concept mapping strategies with different…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Undergraduate Students, Knowledge Representation, Program Effectiveness