The key research question in this small-scale study focuses on the effects that an ICT (information and communications technologies)-based concept mapping intervention has on creativity and writing achievement in 10–11-year-old primary age pupils. The data shows that pupils using a concept mapping intervention significantly improve their NFER nonverbal reasoning age-standardised scores over a c...

Introduction: Ever-expanding medical literature demandssuccessful amalgamation of huge information and clinical practicefor budding doctors. This study aimed to find the effectivenessof the concept map, a novel method of teaching to improveperformance among undergraduate pharmacology students.Methods: The undergraduate medical students pursuingpharmacology in...

The present work deals with a teaching experience with students beginning their formation in engineering at a university level. It deals with a non traditional course of Calculus using concept mapping as a teaching tool. Considering learning by the students to be a development of both cognitive aspects as well as non-cognitive aspects, concept mapping was integrated into the course in order to ...

Concept drift occurs when a target concept changes over time. I present a new method for learning shifting target concepts during concept drift. The method, called Concept Drift Committee (CDC), uses a weighted committee of hypotheses that votes on the current classification. When a committee member’s voting record drops below a minimal threshold, the member is forced to retire. A new committee...

We present Guru, an intelligent tutoring system for high school biology that has conversations with students, gestures and points to virtual instructional materials, and presents exercises for extended practice. Guru’s instructional strategies are modeled after expert tutors and focus on brief interactive lectures followed by rounds of scaffolding as well as summarizing, concept mapping, and Cl...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using concept mapping to promote reflective instructional decision-making among junior level education preservice teachers when planning lessons for elementary and secondary students. The researchers were interested in determining if there was a connection between the use of concept mapping to help preservice teachers improve their instru...

The purpose of this study is to explore how concept map formation process carried out by individuals who are designated experts and novices. As a group of novice participants, 73 prospective teachers and 5 experts were participated to the study. Data collected by using open ended questionnaires, and retrospective review and eye tracking sessions. These data were used to explore the cognitive pr...

Fuzzy Description Logics (fuzzy DLs) have been proposed as a language to describe structured knowledge with vague concepts. A major theoretical and computational limitation so far is the inability to deal with General Concept Inclusions (GCIs), which is an important feature of classical DLs. In this paper, we address this issue and develop a calculus for fuzzy DLs with GCIs.

CM-ED is a Concept Map EDitor developed with the aim of being useful in different contexts and uses of the educational agenda. This paper describes the use of CM-ED to create graphical exercises based on Concept Maps. CM-ED integrated in an Intelligent Tutoring System authoring tool will allow teachers to include this new set of exercises in the new tutor. In this way, the more complete the set...

In an empirical study, eye-gaze patterns of pairs of students were recorded and analyzed in a remote situation where they had to build a concept map collaboratively. They were provided (or not), with a knowledge awareness tool that provided learner A with learner B's level of knowledge measured through a pre-test. Previous results showed that the awareness tool positively affected learning gain...