1Cademy - Students Creating Concept Maps

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Students Creating Concept Maps

Students often comment that it is hard to add linking words onto the “lines” of their concept map.
- This is because they poorly understand the relationship between the concepts, or the meanings of the concepts, and it is the linking words that specify this relationship.
Once students begin to focus on good linking words and on the identification of good cross links, they can see that every concept could be related to every other concept.
This also produces some frustration, and they must choose to identify the most prominent and most useful cross links.
This process involves what Bloom identified as high levels of cognitive performance, namely evaluation and synthesis of knowledge.
- Concept mapping is an easy way to encourage very high levels of cognitive performance when the process is done well. This is one reason concept mapping can also be a very powerful evaluation tool