Concept mapping for eliciting verified personal ontologies. (1st September 2004)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cimolino, Laurent; Kay, Judy; Miller, Amanda
• Is Part Of: International journal of continuing engineering education and lifelong learning. Volume 14:Number 3(2004)
• Page Start: 212
• Page End: 228
• Publication Date: 2004-09-01
• Subjects: concept mapping -- personal ontologies -- knowledge elicitation -- student modelling -- self-explanation -- education evaluation; Engineering -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 620.00715
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1560-4624

Abstract

Concept mapping is a valuable technique for education evaluation. This paper describes VCM, a system based on this approach: it supports teachers in creating concept-mapping tasks intended to capture the student's understanding or personal ontology of a small domain. A novel feature of our work is that the system verifies whether the student intended the map elements that will be used to infer their understanding and misconceptions. We provide a detailed description of VCM, linking it to related work and describe its qualitative evaluation.