Knowledge maps and information processing strategies

Rewey, Kirsten L.; Dansereau, Donald F.; Peel, Jennifer L.

doi:10.1016/0361-476x(91)90021-c

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“…There is, for example, ample evidence that knowledge or concept maps facilitate learning (Rewey Dansereau & Peel 1991;O'Donnell 1993). In these maps, ideas are represented by words or phrases, and the inter-relationships among those ideas by arrows.…”

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Designing Information Systems for User Abilities and Tasks: An Experimental Study

Allen

1998

Online and CD-Rom Review

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. Abstract:With the many choices that can be built into information systems, it is possible to customize such systems for users. This customization may be based on the tasks that users are accomplishing, or on the personal characteristics of users, or a combination of these factors. An experiment is reported in which detailed logging of use of experimental information systems was used to determine the optimal configuration of the systems for each user. Tasks were varied, and the cognitive abilities of users were tested to assess one important personal characteristic. The results showed that it was possible to create an optimal configuration to match the cognitive abilities of users, but that it was more difficult to assess which configuration was the best match for specific tasks. The person-in-task interaction proved to be the least powerful indicator of design configurations. These results suggest that usable information systems can be created for users by careful analysis of the interaction of design features with personal characteristics such as cognitive abilities.

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Designing Information Systems for User Abilities and Tasks: An Experimental Study

Allen

1998

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“…To date, concept mapping has been found to be particularly useful for the recall of main ideas in geology (Holley and Dansereau 1984), physiology (Rewey, Dansereau, and Peel 1991), biology (Novak and Gowin 1984;Schmid and Telero 1990), psychology (Lambiotte, Peel, and Dansereau 1992), and education (De Simone, Lou, and Schmid 2004). Despite the demonstrable effectiveness of concept mapping, learners tend not to adopt it for widespread application partly because they find it cognitively difficult, time consuming, or nonessential vis-à-vis task demands (De Simone, Schmid, and McEwen 2001).…”

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Applications of Concept Mapping

Simone

2007

College Teaching

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This article reviews three major uses of the concept-mapping strategies for postsecondary learning: the external representation of concept maps as an external scratch pad to represent major ideas and their organization, the mental construction of concept maps when students are seeking a time-efficient tool, and the electronic construction and exchange of concept maps between learners when the goal is to diversify ideas and gain new insights. A discussion is presented of the benefits and limitations of each of these uses of concept mapping. C Downloaded by [MUSC Library] at 02:

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“…In addition, the spatial configurations of k-maps provide retrieval cues and serve as overviews that communicate the macrostructure (main ideas) of a domain. I K-maps have been shown to improve the recall of macrostructure information (Rewey, Dansereau, & Peel, 1991), to enhance the processing of technical information (Rewey, Dansereau, Skaggs, Hall, & Pitre, 1989), and to promote the implicit learning of efficient information-processing strategies (Chmielewski & Dansereau, 1998). In addition, k-maps appear to benefit individuals with low verbal abilities (Dees & Dansereau, 1993).…”

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Bilingual Knowledge Maps (BiK-Maps) in Second-Language Vocabulary Learning

Bahr

Dansereau

2001

The Journal of Experimental Education

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Bilingual knowledge maps (BiK-maps) were investigated as tools for learning German-English word pairs. Seventy-two undergraduate students participated in the 2-session experiment. They studied 32 word pairs in 1 of 4 conditions, each distinguished by the presentation format for the vocabulary: The 1st group received BiK-maps (word pairs embedded in a spatial and semantic array); the 2nd group studied lists of word pairs; and the 3rd and 4th groups were identical to the 1st and 2nd groups except for the addition of semantic emphasis materials. Freerecall, cued-recall, and multiple-choice tests were taken in Sessions 1 and 2 (48 h r later). BiK-map learners outperformed list learners on all dependent measures. Semantic emphasis negatively affected performance over time.

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Knowledge maps and information processing strategies

Cited by 40 publications

References 11 publications

Designing Information Systems for User Abilities and Tasks: An Experimental Study

Designing Information Systems for User Abilities and Tasks: An Experimental Study

Applications of Concept Mapping

Bilingual Knowledge Maps (BiK-Maps) in Second-Language Vocabulary Learning

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