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Concept Mapping as a Window into Student Understanding

Concept Mapping as a Window into Student Understanding. William Cliff Department of Biology Niagara University. Biology Scholars Program SoTL Institute July, 2008. What type of learning is required of students of biology?. Meaningful Learning

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Concept Mapping as a Window into Student Understanding

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  1. Concept Mapping as a Window into Student Understanding William Cliff Department of Biology Niagara University Biology Scholars Program SoTL Institute July, 2008

  2. What type of learning is required of students of biology? • Meaningful Learning • New concepts are linked to existing knowledge in a highly integrated framework of ideas • Rote Learning • New concepts are minimally linked to existing knowledge and are stored in an arbitrary, verbatim and nonsubstantive fashion

  3. What is a Concept Map? • A 2D node-link-node diagram that depicts the most important concepts and propositions in a knowledge domain • A network of propositions where related concepts are interlinked by labeled lines

  4. Concept Map of Concept Mapping Modified from: Novak JD & Canas AJ (2006) http//cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/Research Papers/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.pdf

  5. How can Concept Maps Be Used for Teaching and Learning? Student Learning • Individual or Collaborative Assignments • Singular or Sequential Maps Instruction • Global or Integrative Perspective • Expert Models or Templates

  6. Mapping Tasks • Fill-in skeleton map • Fill-in nodes (concepts) • Fill-in links (verbs) • Selected or free response • Self generated • Concepts provided • De novo

  7. How can Concept Maps be Evaluated or Scored? • Holistically or qualitatively • Quantitatively by scoring rubrics • Structural Complexity • Content Validity • Comparison with expert maps

  8. Scoring Concept Maps

  9. Benefits of Concept Mappingfor Students • Promotes consolidation of context-embedded knowledge • Promotes integrative learning • Provides scaffolding for learning • Aid or alternative to expository writing • Offers opportunity for metacognition

  10. Advantages of Concept Mappingfor Instructors • Makes visible the complex structure of student’s declarative knowledge • Uncovers student misconceptions • Reveals student conceptual change

  11. Further Resources • Field-Tested Learning Assessment Guide www.wcer.wisc.edu/archive/cl1/flag/cat/catframe • J. Mintzes and W. Leonard, eds.Handbook of College Science Teaching. NSTA Press, 2006.

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