Concept Mapping

Jonathan Corbett

19 March 2016

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As a graduate student I had the fortune and privilege to study with Professor Cindy Kern. In her course, I was introduced to the idea of Concept Mapping, and since then it has become a staple in my classroom.

I was fortunate in that concept mapping was unknown to me at the start, so I did not presume that they must be linear. Many examples I have found in textbooks and other activities seem to give this impression (Figure 1).

Figure 1.

Traditional "linear" concept map, which seems to form sentences as the user reads through. Source: Biology Junction

Research

Concept Mapping to Reveal Prior Knowledge and Conceptual Change in a Mock Summit Course on Global Climate Change
​Stacy Rebich and Catherine Gautier 

Resources

CmapTools | Free, web- and cloud-based concept mapping that can be used to generate publishable links, image files, and PDFs.