Number of found records: 44
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PETERS, M.; CHEVRIER, J.; LEBLANC, R.; FORTIN, G. |
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Conceptual Maps and Reflexion in Teacher Education |
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Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (p. 2374). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. |
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On line ( 02/2007) |
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In our teacher education program, pre-service teachers are required to develop reflective skills. One activity through which they develop these skills is the creation of a conceptual map on their teaching philosophy. In order to create their concept maps, the pre-service teachers write two short essays during the course of a semester, about their perceptions of good teaching procedures following various readings and discussions done in class. At the end of the semester, students must conceptualize their vision of teaching in a conceptual map using the software Inspiration. This research analysed the dept of reflection through the choice and number of concepts used as well as the type of architecture used for the concept maps by the pre-service teachers. Conclusions on the use of conceptual maps in a teacher education program to develop reflective skills will be discussed. |
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concept map ; benchmarking |
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PLOTNICK, Eric |
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Concept Mapping: A Graphical System for Understanding the Relationship between Concepts |
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On line (07/05/2005) |
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This ERIC Digest discusses concept mapping, a technique for representing the structure of information visually. Concept mapping can be used to brainstorm, design complex structures, communicate complex ideas, aid learning by explicitly integrating new and old knowledge, and assess understanding or diagnose misunderstanding. Visual representation has several advantages: (1) visual symbols are quickly and easily recognized; (2) minimum use of text makes it easy to scan for a word, phrase, or general idea; and (3) visual representation allows for development of a holistic understanding that words alone cannot convey. A wide range of computer software for concept mapping is now available for most of the popular computers used in education. Computer support for concept mapping facilitates ease of adaptation and manipulation, dynamic linking, conversion, communication, and storage. "Inspiration" is currently one of the most popular computer software programs for creating concept maps. (Contains 13 references.) (DB) |
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concept mapping; Knowledge representation; Cognitive-Mapping; Educational-Technology |
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SALTON, Gerard |
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On the Application of Syntactic Methodologies in Automatic Text Analysis |
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Information Processing and Management, 1990, vol. 26, n.1, pp. 73-92 |
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On line (07/05/2005) |
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Summarizes various linguistic approaches proposed for document analysis in information retrieval environments. Topics discussed include syntactic analysis; use of machine-readable dictionary information; knowledge base construction; the PLNLP English Grammar (PEG) system; phrase normalization; and statistical and syntactic phrase evaluation used in automatic indexing. (32 references) (DB) |
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Automatic indexing; Databases-; Phrase-Structure |
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TROCHIM, William M.K. |
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An intoduction to concept mapping for planning and evaluation |
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A Special Issue of Evaluation and Program Planning, 1998, n.12, pp. 1-16. |
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On line (07/05/2005) |
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Concept mapping is a type of structured conceptualization which can be used by groups to develop a conceptual framework which can guide evaluation or planning. In the typical case, six steps are involved: 1) Preparation (including selection of participants and development of focus for the conceptualization); 2) the Generation of statements; 3) the Structuring of statements; 4) the Representation of Statements in the form of a concept map (using multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis); 5) the Interpretation of maps; and, 6) the Utilization of Maps. Concept mapping encourages the group to stay on task; results relatively quickly in an interpretable conceptual framework; expresses this framework entirely in the language of the participants; yields a graphic or pictorial product which simultaneously shows all major ideas and their interrelationships; often improves group or organizational cohesiveness and morale. This paper describes each step in the process, considers major methodological issues and problems, and discusses computer programs which can be used to accomplish the process. (Web) |
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knowledge; concept mapping; computer tools |
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