The Characteristics of Concept Maps Developed by the Secondary Schools and University Students

DOI

10.2991/icomse-17.2018.37How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Characteristics, Concept Map, High School, Higher Education

Abstract

A concept maps is one of the teacher's tools to measure students’ prior knowledge, encourage them to perform meaningful learning and to increase their achievement. It also helps students to overcome difficulties in understanding a concept, empower their critical, creative and metacognitive thinking skills. Besides, it can serve as an evaluation tool in learning, and an early warning to detect students’ misconceptions. The purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics of concept maps arranged by the junior high school, senior high school, and university students. This survey research was conducted to investigate the completeness of the students’ concept maps, the types of the concept maps, and the students’ misconceptions. Research participants consisted of 21 junior high school students, 19 senior high school students, and 35 university students. The results indicate that 98.7% of concept maps developed by the students did not have complete elements while the rest did. There were 90.7%of the concept maps were categorized into the Mixed type; 6.6% were Hub/Spokes, and 2.7% were Tree. Besides, 70.67% of the students’ concept maps contained misconceptions.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ardian Anjar Pangestuti
AU  - Siti Zubaidah
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TI  - The Characteristics of Concept Maps Developed by the Secondary Schools and University Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Annual International Conference on Mathematics, Science, and Education (ICoMSE 2017)
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SN  - 2352-5398
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