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Feldman, Susan – Searcher, 2000
Discusses information retrieval systems and the need to have them adapt to user needs, integrate information in any format, reveal patterns and trends in information, and answer questions. Topics include statistics and probability; natural language processing; intelligent agents; concept mapping; machine-aided indexing; text mining; filtering;…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Concept Mapping, Information Retrieval, Information Systems

Laffey, James M.; Singer, Jon – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 1997
To advance understanding of how mapping can contribute to project-based science (PBS) and cognitive assessment, 31 high school students used mapping in a year-long PBS course; mapping was one component of a set of assessment techniques. Teacher and student interviews, student surveys, and assessment scores show that mapping, as a visual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping, Evaluation Methods

McNaught, Carmel; Kennedy, David – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 1997
Describes the use of concept mapping as a tool to gather data about student misconceptions. Student concept maps are used to inform the design/development of an innovative, simple-to-use, computer-based learning tool which may be incorporated into online courseware. The interactive grouping tool is designed to allow students to construct their own…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Concept Mapping, Courseware

Moen, Ed M. J. C.; Boersma, Kerst Th. – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 1997
Explores the significance of concept mapping for education and curriculum development. Discusses two main streams in curriculum paradigms and important processes, and the functions which concept mapping can have in education and curriculum development. Examines why students in educational institutions don't yet make systematic use of concept maps,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Concept Mapping, Curriculum Development

Lowe, Richard K. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1996
Shows that the construction of mental representations that capture a situation based on the comprehension of a diagram are mediated by the possession of appropriate background knowledge. Indicates that background knowledge deficiencies may make it difficult for beginning students of a domain to construct suitable mental representations from…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Mapping, Diagrams

Guastello, E. Francine; Beasley, T. Mark; Sinatra, Richard C. – Remedial and Special Education, 2000
Low-achieving seventh-grade students were assigned to two science intervention groups, a read-and-discuss teacher-directed method group and a group in which a model of concept mapping that connected major and minor concepts followed the lesson. Results indicate that using graphic representations was more effective than the traditional approach.…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Diagrams, Grade 7, High Risk Students

Rutledge, Michael L.; Mitchell, Melissa A. – American Biology Teacher, 2002
Determines teachers' conceptions of evolutionary theory using the technique of concept mapping. Discusses the methodology, the survey items, and concept map features. Makes specific recommendations for the teaching of evolution. (Contains 32 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Structures, Concept Mapping, Educational Strategies

Rittle-Johnson, Bethany; Siegler, Robert S.; Alibali, Martha Wagner – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001
Proposes that conceptual and procedural knowledge develop in an iterative fashion and improved problem representation is one mechanism underlying the relations between them. Two experiments were conducted with 5th and 6th grade students learning about decimal fractions. Results indicate conceptual and procedural knowledge do develop, iteratively,…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 5, Grade 6

Kowalchuk, Elizabeth – Arts and Learning Research, 2000
Reports on the results of a project that examined preservice art teachers' thinking about contemporary art and teaching by having them create concept maps. Indicates that the participants settled on an approach and changed it slightly when given more information and teaching suggestions. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Teachers, Concept Mapping, Educational Practices, Educational Research
Campbell, Cathy; Ungar, Michael – Career Development Quarterly, 2004
The 1st article (C. Campbell & M. Ungar, 2004) of this 2-part exploration of postmodern approaches to family therapy and narrative approaches to career counseling explored the differences between traditional trait and factor counseling models and postmodern approaches using life narratives and social constructionism. In this 2nd article, the…
Descriptors: Therapy, Family Counseling, Career Counseling, Counseling Techniques
Machin, Janet; Varleys, Janet; Loxley, Peter – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
This paper reports on a paper and pencil concept-sorting strategy that enables trainee teachers to restructure their knowledge in any one domain of science. It is used as a self-study tool, mainly to enable them to break down and understand the progression of concepts beyond the level at which they have to teach. The strategy involves listing key…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Science Education, Concept Formation
Wirz, Dick – Inquiry, 2004
Most professors realize that students receive and process information in different ways. Some professors are even capable of identifying how most students learn. If students' learning styles are compatible with the teaching style of their instructors, they tend to retain more information, effectively apply it, and have a better attitude toward the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Teaching Styles, Teacher Characteristics, Teaching Methods
Paris, Nita A.; Glynn, Shawn M. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2004
Preservice teachers studied texts about three fundamentally important science concepts. They read versions with no analogy, versions with a simple analogy, and versions with an elaborate analogy. An elaborate analogy is one that consists of text and pictorial components in which similarities between the analog and the target concept are made…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Attitudes
Uzuntiryaki, Esen; Geban, Omer – Instructional Science: An International Journal of Learning and Cognition, 2005
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of conceptual change texts accompanied with concept mapping instruction, compared to traditional instruction (TI), on 8th grade students' understanding of solution concepts and their attitudes toward science as a school subject. Solution Concept Test was developed as a result of examination…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Teaching Methods, Grade 8, Science Instruction
Waggoner, David; Goldman, Paul – Journal of Educational Administration, 2005
Purpose: What is the rhetoric that higher education institutions use when they develop and publish policies to improve student retention? Using the organization literature on institutional environments, this study examines the nature and evolution of institutional rhetoric used by three public universities in a single state over a 20-year period.…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Universities, School Holding Power, Organizational Climate