Hence concept mapping can be used to promote and evaluate critical thinking. While reading, teachers should ask students to help add to the map as a group using an overhead or large chart. The effect of concept mapping as a teaching strategy in attainment of biological science concepts among secondary school students september 1, 2014. The use of graphic metacognitive techniques for improving learning has yielded successful results for both. The population was the first year students of sman 3 bengkulu town in academic year of 20112012 with. How it works is students are places into groups of four usually, or more and two students share the same job. Concepts play a key role at the teaching and learning processes of different disciplines, and due to the importance of concepts many researches such as ausubel 3, gowin 12, skinner 25, piaget 21 and gagne, 11 believe that concepts and the clarity of them are considered to be the essence of any discipline this study aims to investigate the effect of using concepts mapping on.
Strategy to enhance student engagement the lecture method, which characterized my teaching style, cannot be effective on its. This article is a description of an educational innovation that utilizes concept mapping as a teaching strategy in the development of critical thinking skills among undergraduate nursing students. Generate, sort, connect, elaborate rationale a concept map is a visual representation of a topic that students can create using words, phrases, lines, arrows, space on the page, and perhaps color to help organize their ideas and show their understanding of an idea, vocabulary term, or essential question. Concept mapping tools centre for teaching excellence. The purpose of this study was to compare the achievement of students taught with concept mapping, cooperative learning, 5e learning cycle and lecture methods with the intention of. This small descriptive comparison study was undertaken to determine whether concept mapping improved critical thinking skills in gns during a hospital orientation program. This video is about teaching strategie, concept mapping. Using concept maps eberly center carnegie mellon university. Concept mapping is a type of graphic organizer that is used to help visually demonstrate complex ideas as simply as possible. Effect of concept mapping in science on science achievement, cognitive skills and attitude of students dr. International journal of mathematics trends and technology. The use of mind mapping strategy in the teaching of.
Esol teaching strategies1, 2 the taxonomy presented below offers teachers an organized set of esol english for speakers of other languages teaching strategies. Using a graphic organizer, students think about the concept in several ways. The effect of concept mapping as a teaching strategy in. Nov 15, 20 concept mapping is a strategy that illustrates connections between concepts and ideas. People often confuse rote learning and meaningful learning with teaching approaches that can vary. Pdf effect of concept mapping teaching strategy on physical. Concept maps can be used as both a cognitive and constructivist learning strategy in teaching and learning in adult education and human resource development. The frayer model is an adaptation of the concept map. Power tools for teaching students with learning disabilities 528k pdf. From theorydriven graphic organizers in teaching science for understanding. Concept maps deepen understanding and comprehension. Concept mapping success for every student success for. An educational strategy for advancing nursing education article in nursing forum 392. What do want your students to know by the end of the unit, on the.
Designing a concept mapping activity concept maps have great potential as both instructional and assessment tools in the classroom, but the design of a concept mapping activity can greatly change what is measured. Teachers can use concept maps as a prereading strategy by inviting students to. The desire to improve science achievement through more effective instructional strategies and the increasing awareness in recent years of the teaching learning. This list of teaching strategies and activities was. In this instructional model students apply their prior understanding to determine the attributes of a concept through the processes of comparing and contrasting. A visual learning strategy benefiting postsecondary deaf and hard of hearing accounting students one might assume that an accounting college instructor needs only an understanding of debit and credit rules, a reputable textbook, and a comprehensive practice set to teach an accounting course well. As teachers know their students learning styles and needs they can select alternative strategies or adapt those suggested to deliver the content. This work presents a proposal for the teachinglearning of the concept map.
Having students create concept maps can provide you with insights into how they organize and represent knowledge. Cognitive concept mapping is an educational strategy that takes into consideration the principles of educational psychology. Manjula p rao regional institute of education, mysore, india. Employed as a learning tool, concept mapping has been claimed to be effective both as a cognitive strategy to stimulate learners to make cognitive. Concept maps are a graphic representation of students knowledge.
Lecturing, concept mapping, cooperative learning or learning cycle. The results of the study suggest that all three of the concept mapping strategies are effective in increasing students science achievement. International journal of mathematics trends and technology volume2 issue3 2011. Nurse educators are faced with the challenge of finding ways to promote and evaluate critical thinking in nursing students, and various teaching strategies have been identified to achieve this goal.
Concept mapping is a useful instructional strategy that facilitates meaningful learning. Effects of concept mapping instruction approach on. Concept mapping is used to organize related information in a visual manner. Nonequivalent groups pretestposttest design was used in this study. This paper provides an account of one such strategy concept mapping and shows how it can be introduced into the physics classroom in tertiary education using it as both an instructional and assessment tool. The list represents strategies and activities that teachers report that they use or. The effectiveness of mind mapping as an active learning. Collaborative concept mapping as a prewriting strategy for. This paper is intended to give an insight into the concept of teaching and learning for teachers who intend to excel in their teaching career. A concept map is a type of graphic organizer that helps students organize and represent their knowledge of a particular subject. Concept maps can summarize a part of a book, connect historical events.
Concept mapping as a strategy in teaching reading descriptive. Concept mapping is a way of visually organizing and representing knowledge around a key term or concept. The use of mind mapping strategy in the teaching of writing. The effect of concept mapping on learners metacognitive skills in problem solving abstract. Additionally, the moderate significant correlations between the posttest and concept map scores of the current study established that concept maps are a useful measure of student. Concept mapping was a valuable teaching and evaluation strategy for this group that could be used by nursing educators to improve critical thinking and identify and correct areas of theoretical. The indirect control over this choice is primarily in instructional strategies used and the evaluation strategies used. Nursing students face a great need to understand the larger questions and problems of their chosen field. But many teachers and students are unsure how to make a concept map easily.
We believe that teaching proper reading strategies can help secondlanguage learners overcome their. The study investigated the effect of concept map teaching strategy on the academic achievement of senior secondary school students in genetics. Concept mapping as a strategy to enhance learning and. Literacy strategies concept mapping graphic organizers have proven to be powerful learning tools in the science classroom. This can be a useful strategy for assessing both the knowledge students have coming into a program or course and their. For ells or anyone who may have difficulty with concept mapping, try these tips and strategies. Most concept map organizers engage students in answering questions such as, what is it. Analyzing the effects of various concept mapping techniques on. A concept map is a visual organizer that can enrich students understanding of a new concept. This is a similar tool to a concept map but can be more flexible and personal, as it represents a map of the students mind when thinking about a particular topic or concept. Traditionally, educators use concept mapping as a typical. The synthesis of a mind map using the concept of critical thinking promotes the nursing student to problem solve, to reason, to think in a systematic way when making clinical decisions.
Essentially, a mind map is used to brainstorm a topic and is a great strategy for students. The research study investigated the effects of teaching with concept mapping instructional strategy on learning achievement in nigeria. Model for your students how you identify the major ideas presented in a reading as you read. May 11, 2011 in this way, the concept mapping as strategy for reading comprehension can assist the students to comprehend a descriptive text. Teachers can use concept maps as a prereading strategy by inviting students to share what they already know about a particular concept. The technique of concept mapping has served numerous and diverse functions in education. Concept mapping is a teaching tool that helps students understand the key concept through making connections of words and phrases with the main idea e. Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on teaching. Concept maps are a cross disicplinary active learning technique that help students manage concepts into sub concepts, synthesize information, see a larger picture and develop higherorder thinking skills and strategies lee et al, 20. Concept mapping tools allow you or your students to visually depict a system of relationships by creating a map in which nodes represent ideas or facts, and lines or connectors between nodes represent relationships for example, causeandeffect relationships, category and subcategory relationships, and so on.
It can help to illustrate their knowledge of a subject more thoroughly than. Designed to bring order to a task which is often extremely difficult for groups or organizations to accomplish trochim, 1989 concept mapping is a type of structured conceptualization method designed to organize and represent ideas from an identified group. Effect of conceptmapping in science on science achievement, cognitive skills and attitude of students dr. This research study is therefore conceptualized on exploring the effects of the use of concept mapping instructional strategy, cmis, in the teaching and learning of motion, based on the fact that motion is fundamental.
Mapping is a way of picturing course content that enhances retrievability of the information on a test. Teaching with concept mapping instructional strategy in human. It was derived from ausubels learning theory which places central. There are several ways to construct concept maps for middle and high school students. Though often used interchangeably, educators define them in distinct ways. The creation of concept maps can also be supported by the. You can provide your students with direct instruction on how to use semantic maps. Finally, the use of concept maps in teaching geography brings up the idea of. Concept mapping is an effective teaching strategy for developing critical thinking and clinical decisionmaking skills.
The use of concept mapping in teaching reading really help the teacher in conveying the decriptive text and making easier for the students in comprehending it. Conceptbased teaching and learning semis coalition. The design for the study was pretest and posttest control group design. Since concept of definition maps are using vocabulary to help depend student understanding it can be used in any content area, for any topic, and related to any curriculum. One instructional strategy which probably has the potential to offer opportunities to address the problems of effective teaching and learning of basic science is the concept mapping advocated by novak and. The main objective of this study was aimed to identify whethier the use of mind mapping strategy was effective in improving the students writing achievement. Reading students can create a map on the main idea of the story, a certain character, the plot, etc. Jul 03, 2015 this video is about teaching strategie, concept mapping. A strategy for teaching and evaluation in nursing education article in nurse education in practice 64. Adapting teaching and learning strategies the strategies linked to learning activities are a suggestion only. Each students is given a job to do while they read the assigned text.
The aim of this study is to summarize what research findings reveal about the effectiveness of gos on deriving meaning from texts. Designed to bring order to a task which is often extremely difficult for groups or organizations to accomplish trochim, 1989. Based on ausubels theory, a key determinant of meaningful learning is. Reciprocal teaching is a strategy that allows the students to become the teachers in a small group. Mind and concept mapping american library association. Concept mapping is a reflective process and emphasizes the reasons and rationales of associations with related. Organize your ideas into categories if applicable to the type of concept map you chose. Concept mapping is a strategy that illustrates connections. Below is an example of a stepbystep set of directions, which can be especially beneficial for struggling students. However, empirical research on concept mapping as a prewriting strategy in second language l2 learning contexts is limited. Using concept mapping to teach young efl learners reading skills. Use of concept maps as a strategy for teachinglearning and. How do i adapt my teaching strategies to include these concepts. Concept maps, according to the center for applied special technology cast, visually illustrate relationships among words, concepts and facts.
A diagram or drawing showing the conceptual relationship between several ideas or concepts. Mind maps typically include pictures, drawings, and diagrams when expressing connections between ideas. Learning theories summaries on the learningtheories. Sciences course so that this technique is transformed into a learning strategy. Discover how to make a concept map easily and with the help of an example. In this issue we discuss strategies for helping medical students acquire concept mapping skills, the experience with concept mapping at various medical schools, and the ways basic science faculty can use concept mapping. Instructional scaffolding to improve learning similar to the scaffolding used in construction to support workers as they work on a specific task, instructional scaffolds are temporary support structures faculty put in place to assist students in accomplishing new tasks and concepts. Meaningful learning using concept maps as a learning strategy eric. The framework of the frayer model includes, concept word, definition, characteristics, examples, and non examples of the concept word. The use of concept maps as a teaching strategy was first developed by j d novak in the early 1980s. To effectively use concept maps in your classroom, we offer the following recommendations. Pdf concept mapping as a strategy to enhance learning and. Classroom using concept maps science stanford university.
See resources for a list of concept mapping software. Concept mapping is an evidencebased and a highimpact teaching strategy. The first and most important type of comprehensible input for ells is visual. They are easy to construct and can be used across all content areas. Each subtopic can have branches of their own, if required. The maps can be used to understand course readings, analyze case studies, develop reflective thinking and enhance research skills. Effects of concept mapping instruction approach on students. Suggested resources concept mapping resource guide n. Concept attainment is a constructivist approach to teaching and learning drawn from the work of jerome bruner 1956. This list of teaching strategies and activities was developed out of a focused brainstorming process conducted with general education, special education and english as a second language teachers in minnesota during the 20012002 school year. Frayer and his colleges created this framework for directly teaching words to support concept development. The most important single factor that influences learning is what the learner already knows.
The strategies are pedagogically and linguistically appropriate for english language learners ells. Based on the published nursing literature, the scope of concept mapping is discussed in this paper as a teaching and evaluation strategy for critical thinking in nursing education. Mind mapping can be used for generating, visualising, organising, notetaking, problemsolving, decisionmaking, revising and clarifying your university topic, so that you can get started with assessment tasks. Concept mapping gives students a space to creatively represent their thinking and reasoning, and to visualize relationships among ideas. After studying a unit, students could be asked to create a concept map as homework or in lieu of a standard test. The theory underlying concept maps and how to construct.
Effect of concept mapping teaching strategy on physical science achievement in relation to intelligence level. The effect of concept mapping on learners metacognitive. Study maps clearly and concisely demonstrate hierarchical relationships among the topic, main ideas, and supporting details or pertinent course material. Many of these products are easy to use and available at a reasonable cost.
It has been our experience that a workshop is the best way to introduce concept mapping to students. However in order to adapt to the students learning needs the teaching strategy must also change. Methods the mind mapping activity was implemented in a first. A mind map is a spontaneous way of showing the association havebetween ideas. Mind and concept mapping winter 2014 by karen beavers overview and definition mind mapping and concept mapping are ways to visually represent information and ideas. Applications of using concept maps in teaching and learning. The theory underlying concept maps and how to construct and use them1. The results suggest that concept mapping is a valid and potentially useful strategy for improving students performance. The use of mind mapping mm, a visual tool developed by t. Using concept mapping to teach young efl learners reading. Conclusions concept map can be integrated with other applications, and user interaction with graphical structures in the visual language can be used to control any activity supported on the host computer or network. The effect of concept mapping instructional strategy on. Concept mapping in the teaching of physics at undergraduate. The purpose of this article is thus to explore the integration of concept mapping as a teaching strategy within a lecture.