1557-3087/$ – see front matter © 2008 doi:10.1016/j.teln.2007.08.002 Abstract Concept mapping is a teaching–learning strategy that can be used to evaluate a nursing student's ability to critically think in the clinical setting. It has been used in disciplines other than nursing to allow the learner to visually reorganize and arrange information in a manner that promotes learning of concepts tha...

This interactive session brings together researchers and educators interested in using external representations to facilitate and assess learning. The session will juxtapose four systems, each of which takes a different design approach. The representations include concept maps, metaphorical textual descriptions or visualizations for helping students learn in complex domains such as science or p...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the ways in which the use of concept maps influenced the learning processes of adult graduate students in the context of higher education. Two groups of students were taught to use concept mapping as a constructivist learning strategy and then were followed over the course of a year to determine the impact this strategy had on their learning. Results...

Concept mapping has been applied in a variety of fields, including instruction, learning, curriculum development, and assessment. Because many empirical studies have proven the validity of concept mapping, a computer-based concept mapping system has been developed. The system provides two learning environments. In the ‘construct-by-self’ environment, the system provides students with the evalua...

This paper describes a study that has explored the body of literature on competitive advantage and placed this in the context of the development of travel eMediaries (online intermediaries). The work uses concept maps to highlight determinants of performance in online intermediation in this sector and the relationships among these variables. The paper identifies the most significant contributor...

This paper describes the design of the learner modelling component of the LEACTIVEMATH system, which was conceived to integrate modelling of learners’ competencies in a subject domain, motivational and affective dispositions and meta-cognition. This goal has been achieved by organising learner models as stacks, with the subject domain as ground layer and competency, motivation, affect and meta-...

Recently, many authors have considered the problem of simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM). The paper addresses a somewhat di erent problem, that of cooperative localisation and mapping (CLAM). Basically, the CLAM approach involves two or more robots cooperating to build a map of the environment. This cooperation is not aimed at simply increasing the speed with which the map is construc...

A concept map consists of nodes representing concepts and links representing the relationships between the concepts. To examine the influence of concept mapping on learning from texts, we varied the support strategies. Eighty students either learned by constructing concept maps on their own, by correcting an incorrect worked-out map, or by studying a correct worked-out map. A control group did ...

Essay writing is an important learning activity which involves higher level thinking, the same as concept mapping activities.

Generative strategies, where learners process the target content while connecting different concepts to build a knowledge network, has shown potential to improve student learning outcomes. While concept maps in particular have been linked to the development of generative strategies, few studies have explored structuring the concept mapping process to support generative strategies, and few studi...