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Allan Jeong; Rachel Wong; Jean Baptiste Mbanzabugabo – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2025
This systematic review investigates the impact of concept mapping on students' critical thinking (CT) skills by analyzing 17 empirical studies involving 1,363 students. Despite widespread claims that concept mapping enhances CT--defined here as analysis, evaluation, inference, deduction, and induction--the findings are mixed, largely due to…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Literature Reviews, Evaluation Methods, Concept Mapping
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Schroeder, Noah L.; Nesbit, John C.; Anguiano, Carlos J.; Adesope, Olusola O. – Educational Psychology Review, 2018
A concept map is a node-link diagram in which each node represents a concept and each link identifies the relationship between the two concepts it connects. We investigated how using concept maps influences learning by synthesizing the results of 142 independent effect sizes (n = 11,814). A random-effects model meta-analysis revealed that learning…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Concept Mapping, Effect Size, Achievement Gains
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Richardson, Michelle; Abraham, Charles; Bond, Rod – Psychological Bulletin, 2012
A review of 13 years of research into antecedents of university students' grade point average (GPA) scores generated the following: a comprehensive, conceptual map of known correlates of tertiary GPA; assessment of the magnitude of average, weighted correlations with GPA; and tests of multivariate models of GPA correlates within and across…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Grade Point Average, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
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Nesbit, John C.; Adesope, Olusola O. – Review of Educational Research, 2006
This meta-analysis reviews experimental and quasi-experimental studies in which students learned by constructing, modifying, or viewing node-link diagrams. Following an exhaustive search for studies meeting specified design criteria, 67 standardized mean difference effect sizes were extracted from 55 studies involving 5,818 participants. Students…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Effect Size, Concept Mapping, Meta Analysis