An innovative concept map approach for improving students' learning performance with an instant feedback mechanism.

• Autores: Po-Han Wu, Gwo-Jen Hwang, Marcelo Milrad, Hui-Ru Ke, Yueh-Min Huang
• Localización: British journal of educational technology, ISSN 0007-1013, Vol. 43, Nº. 2, 2012, págs. 217-232
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Concept maps have been widely employed for helping students organise their knowledge as well as evaluating their knowledge structures in a wide range of subject matters. Although researchers have recognised concept maps as being an important educational tool, past experiences have also revealed the difficulty of evaluating the correctness of a concept map. It usually takes days or weeks for teachers to manually evaluate the concept maps developed by students; consequently, the students cannot receive timely feedback from the teachers, which not only affects their learning schedules, but also significantly influences the students' learning achievements. In this paper, a computer-based concept map-oriented learning strategy with real-time assessment and feedback is proposed in order to cope with the problems mentioned above. Our approach provides immediate evaluation of concept maps and gives also real-time feedback to the students. An experiment has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of this new strategy in comparison with the conventional computer-based concept map approach. It is found that our innovative approach can be significantly beneficial to promote learning achievements as well as the learning attitudes of students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]