THE USE OF CONCEPT MAPPING BY STUDENTS ENROLLED IN A SCIENCE PROGRAM: A DIAGNOSTIC STUDY

Education Sciences

The concept map is one of the learning tools widely used in the most developed educational systems around the world. In order to assess the use of this tool in the Moroccan context, we conducted a diagnostic study with students of a scientific field in the Faculty of Science in Rabat. Following a qualitative approach, we measured the level of mastery of this tool through a diagnostic test. To support this approach, we tried to verify the use of the concept map as a teaching tool and as a learning tool. At the same time, we attempted to conduct a concept map training to verify its impact on students. The results revealed several findings on the level of knowledge, use and mastery of the concept map by science students. These results seem to be largely exploitable in order to create a specific training device likely to favor the use of the tool on the computer support in order to reinforce the methodological competence of the students registered in the scientific fields.

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