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Hay, David B.; Tan, Po Li; Whaites, Eric – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2010
The aim of this study is to argue for alternative assessment methods (i.e. concept map) considering the changes in demography in higher education. In the case of school of dentistry, for example, there is an urgent call for a catalyst for new assessment methods in dental education in view of the drive to comprehensively assess professional…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Alternative Assessment, Adult Education, Adult Learning
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Hay, David B.; Wells, Harvey; Kinchin, Ian M. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2008
This paper reports the use of quantitative and qualitative measures of university student learning during teaching in psychiatry. Concept mapping, pre-and post test scores and performance in written assignments were used to measure the quality of change in personal understanding and to show the ways that the knowledge-targets of the course were…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Student Evaluation, Learning, College Students
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Hay, David B. – Studies in Higher Education, 2007
This article reports the use of concept mapping to reveal patterns of student learning (or non-learning) in the course of master's level teaching for research methods. The work was done with a group of 12 postgraduate students, and the concept maps of four individuals produced "before" and "after" a single teaching intervention…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Research Methodology, Case Studies, Educational Research
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Kinchin, Ian M.; Lygo-Baker, Simon; Hay, David B. – Studies in Higher Education, 2008
It has been claimed that one of the overriding purposes of the scholarship of teaching movement is to make more visible what teachers do to make learning happen. The authors of this article are critical of the literature on the scholarship of teaching for not having made more progress towards this aim. They support these assertions through…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Teacher Characteristics, Scholarship, Learning Processes
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Hay, David B.; Kehoe, Caroline; Miquel, Marc E.; Hatzipanagos, Stylianos; Kinchin, Ian M.; Keevil, Steve F.; Lygo-Baker, Simon – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
This paper shows how concept mapping can be used to measure the quality of e-learning. Six volunteers (all of them 3rd-year medical students) took part in a programme of e-learning designed to teach the principles of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Their understanding of MRI was measured before and after the course by the use of concept mapping.…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Medical Students, Prior Learning, Instructional Materials
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Kinchin, Ian M.; Hay, David B. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
This paper examines the contention that achievement in research is a prerequisite for effective teaching in higher education. It also explores university level teaching more generally with the purpose of examining the links between teaching and research. Concept mapping, in particular, is described as a means of exploring both the knowledge…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research, Prerequisites, Teacher Effectiveness
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Hay, David B.; Kinchin, Ian M. – Education & Training, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explain and develop a classification of cognitive structures (or typologies of thought), previously designated as spoke, chain and network thinking by Kinchin "et al." Design/methodology/approach: The paper shows how concept mapping can be used to reveal these conceptual typologies and endeavours to place…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Classification, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style