Across herd genetic evaluation using BLUP procedures allows individuals from different herds to be validly compared in their relative genetic merit. The potential advantages of across herd analyses to the industry as a whole has meant that such analyses are routinely conducted in Canada and European countries. In Australia, across herd evaluations will become a major tool for small scale breede...

Concept maps can be generated manually or automatically. It is important to recognize differences of the two types of concept maps. The automatically generated concept maps are dynamic, interactive, and full of associations between the terms on the maps and the underlying documents. Through a specific concept mapping system, Visual Concept Explorer (VCE), this paper discusses how automatically ...

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...