Feature component maps describe which components are needed to implement a particular feature and are used early in processes to develop a product line based on existing assets. This paper describes a new technique to derive the feature component map and additional dependencies utilizing dynamic information and concept analysis. The method is simple to apply, cost-effective, largely language in...

The purpose of this research project was to determine the effects of incorporating concept mapping on the achievement of fifth grade students in science class. The study was conducted with twenty-three students at Ata Elementary School, Trabzon, Turkey. The students were tested with teacher-constructed preand post tests containing 20 multiple-choice questions. The pupils in the experimental and...

We describe tools that use conceptual maps to manage the atomic content of a e-learning platform and to assess the conceptual learning of the students.

In two studies we investigated whether concept mapping or summary writing better support students while learning from authentic problems in the field of business. We interpret concept mapping and summary writing as elaboration tools aiming at helping students to understand new information, and to integrate it with prior knowledge. We hypothesize concept mapping to be superior to summary writing...

This article develops the concept-mapping method as a tool for enhancing teaching quality in higher education. In particular, it describes how concept mapping can be used to transform abstract knowledge and understanding into concrete visual representations that are amenable to comparison and measurement. The article describes four important uses of the method: the identification of prior knowl...

To support applications, such as efficient browsing in large knowledge bases and cooperative knowledge discovery in large databases, the concept of rule similarity is essential. In this paper we define such a measure, called distance, and then put in the service of various knowledge exploration processes. Rule distances allow us to place all the available knowledge on a “map”, in which proximit...

Secure programming is a widely used term for programming robustly. Applying the principles and methodologies of this style of programming would significantly improve the quality of software in use today. Teaching students how to program robustly, or securely, is a first step towards this goal. This paper presents a concept map for secure programming and then some questions used to evaluate stud...

This paper argues that concept mapping is a highly effective research tool in capturing and relating the relationship between knowledge and action within an interpretive, sensemaking research framework.

This paper presents an English upgrading course authoring environment for multiple authors collaborating via a distance education system. The course authoring follows a rigorous object-oriented structure, which allows easy search and retrieval functions for both the authoring and the learning environment counterpart. Moreover, authoring is supported by the concept mapping paradigm, where in our...

It is well known that meaningful knowledge of statistics involves more than simple factual or procedural knowledge of statistics. For an intelligent use of statistics, conceptual understanding of the underlying theory is essential. As conceptual understanding is usually defined as the ability to perceive links and connections between important concepts that may be hierarchically organized, rese...