An investigation into high-achiever and low-achiever knowledge organisation and knowledge processing in concept mapping: A case study |
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Authors: | Mary Wong Siew Lian |
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Institution: | (1) Batu Lintang Teachers’ College, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia |
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Abstract: | This study used concept map content analysis and interviews to gain insights into the knowledge organisation and knowledge
processing of pre-service teachers. Forty-eight preservice teachers of elementary science from a teachers’ training college
in Sarawak, Malaysia, participated in this study. Correlations between achievement and five concept map characteristics showed
that there were significant positive correlations (p<.01) between achievement and: the number of appropriate links; the average number of appropriate concepts per cluster; and,
the hierarchy score of subjects’ concept maps, and significant negative correlations (p<.01) between achievement and: the number of inappropriate links; and, the average number of inappropriate concepts per cluster.
Interviews with high-achievers and lowachievers revealed that there were differences in the way they processed knowledge during
concept mapping. The high-achievers were more thorough than were the low-achievers in cognitive processing of knowledge, taking
time to make sense of concepts, sort and group concepts, form relevant links between concepts, and organise concepts hierarchically.
Active cognitive processing of knowledge seems to be related to more complex, well-integrated cognitive structures for the
material learned. |
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