Concept mapping has been used as a tool to monitor and promote meaningful learning, thinking, and acting in courses taught by Professor Mauri Åhlberg since 1989 at the University of Joensuu, Finland. In this paper the use of concept mapping is described in an advanced course that focused on teacher as researcher and developer of her/his own work and its preconditions. During the course universi...

This article introduces an idea for novel way of mapping textures onto a surface of 3D model. Our technique is based on two interlocking mappings, the first one maps surface vertices onto computed skeleton and the second maps surrounding area of each skeleton segment into a rectangle with dimensions based on surface properties around this segment. Furthermore, these rectangles are packed into a...

INVESTIGATION OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL EFFECTS OF FMRI VISUAL FIELD MAPPING TECHNIQUES ON V1 John Janik Marquette University, 2011 Blood oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging has been used extensively for mapping the representation of the visual field within the human brain. Visual field mapping using fMRI has been used clinically to assess patients with cortical pathology...

the present study was designed to investigate the impact of applying fill-in-the-map and construct-a-map techniques on efl learners’ knowledge of tenses. to this end, sixty efl elementary female students, who were selected based on their performance on a standardized teacher-made proficiency test, were randomly assigned into two equal experimental and control groups. in order to be convinced of...

traditional and modern vocabulary instruction techniques have been introduced in the past few decades to improve the learners’ performance in reading comprehension. semantic mapping, which entails drawing learners’ attention to the interrelationships among lexical items through graphic organizers, is claimed to enhance vocabulary learning significantly. however, whether this technique suits all...

the main purpose of this research is designing model of factors that affect utilization of policy research with concept mapping technique and verifying it. for this in three stage, sequential-exploratory mixed methods design is used. in first stage, literature review, interview and focus group is used for identifying factors. the analysis is used for analyzing data. in second stage for designin...

BACKGROUND Despite the substantive literature from survey research that has accumulated on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the United States and elsewhere, very little research has been done to assess conceptual domains that CAM and conventional providers would emphasize in CAM survey studies. The objective of this study is to describe and interpret the results of concept mappin...

The present study investigated the effects of selected presentation techniques including the keyword method, the peg word method, the loci method, argument mapping, concept mapping and mind mapping on L2 vocabulary comprehension and production. To this end, a sample of 151 Iranian female students from a public pre-university school in Islam Shahr was selected. They were assigned to six groups. ...

The main theoretical position of this paper is that it is the explicit problem solving support in concept mapping software that produces a stronger effect in problem solving performance than the implicit support afforded by the graphical functionality of concept mapping software. Explicit problem solving support activates cognitive functions such as knowledge representation, knowledge elicitati...

The sense of form is poor in indirect view. Yet the cortical magnification theory asserts that the disadvantage can be made up by scaling the image size according to the spatial variation in the mapping of the retina onto the cortex. It is thus assumed that all visual information passes through a functionally homogeneous neural circuitry, with the spatial sampling of input signals varying acros...