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Cook, Leah J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The aim of this research is to determine what differences may exist in students' structural knowledge while using a variety of concept mapping assessments. A concept map can be used as an assessment which connects concepts in a knowledge domain. A single assessment may not be powerful enough to establish how students' new knowledge relates to…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Science Instruction, Novices, Expertise
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Kinchin, Ian M.; Miller, Norma L. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2012
In an attempt to reveal potential threshold concepts in the field of higher education pedagogy, groups of university teachers (in the UK and in Panama) were encouraged to develop personal reflection upon their conceptions of teaching. This was initiated through concept mapping activities. It was hoped that this would help participants to address…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Concept Mapping, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
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Zhang, Liping; Wang, Yan; Dong, Boqing; Zhou, Zengyao – Frontiers of Education in China, 2009
A concept map is a schematic device for representing a set of concept meanings embedded in a framework of propositions. It can be used to evaluate students' knowledge structure. This article introduces the comparative study of Chinese and American secondary school students' knowledge structure. They are compared quantitatively and qualitatively in…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Cognitive Structures, Comparative Analysis, Secondary School Students
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Brown, Barbara Alice; Harte, Jacqui; Warnes, Anne-Marie – Education & Training, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to share practice on how two approaches to work-based learning (WBL) are used to develop the knowledge and skills of health care staff with different levels of experience and educational attainment within the Department of Nursing and the Department of Allied Health Professions at a post-1992 university…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Models, Comparative Analysis, Concept Mapping
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Trigwell, Keith; Sleet, Ray – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 1990
A study compared university chemistry students' (n=19) performances in creativity exercises, concept mapping, and traditional examinations. Performance in all three correlated with deep study strategy, but low correlations between the three methods suggests that they test different aspects of chemistry knowledge. Use and integration of all three…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Structures, College Students, Comparative Analysis
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers