Concept map/Schema questionnaire
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Mapping Questionnaire
1. What is a concept map?
2. How do you make a concept map?
3. What can you use a concept map for?
4. For each of the following situations, rate (on a scale of 1 to 4) how useful concept mapping would be:
Not useful, Somewhat useful, Pretty useful, Very useful
- Following the characters and plot of a complicated story
- Understanding the Sumerians in social studies class
- Learning math formulas
- Classifying rocks and minerals
- Figuring out how you and your cousins are related
- Studying for a social studies test
- Memorizing important historical dates
- Preparing to write an essay
- Understanding the effects of a toxic spill in a creek on the plants and animals in that area
5. For each of the following examples, rate (on a scale of 1 to 4) how good a concept map it is. Rating Scale: 2=Somewhat good, 3=Pretty good, 1=Not good, 4= Very good
The drawings are not reproduced here for copyright reasons, but they include concept maps, mind maps and venn diagrams and maps in various quality.
Items 1-3 were coded with the following coding scheme
One point awarded for mentioning each of the following:
- Like a cluster, brainstorm, spider map, etc.
- Pieces: nodes, words, circles
- Pieces: links, lines, arrows
- Important or main ideas/concepts
- Relationships, connections, togetherness, linking, sentence-making
- Important ideas in middle, related ideas nearby
- Graphical, visible, diagrammatic, picture, chart
- Used to: show important concepts, relevant relationships, organize information, better understand, learn material
- Looks like this (with picture) OR description of creation process (e.g., make circles, draw lines to connect)
- One application of concept mapping (e.g., prewriting, studying for test)
- More than one application given OR varied applicability, can apply concept mapping in many content areas (this additional point awarded after award for single application givenÑsee previous bullet)