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Samantha McMahon; Jan Wright; Valerie Harwood – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2015
Concept mapping is a research method often used to assess participants' knowledge of a topic. Our project studied how preservice teachers' knowledge of challenging behaviour changes (or not) during their final professional teaching experience. We asked the participants to make a concept map before and after their final professional teaching…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Knowledge Representation, Research Methodology, Preservice Teachers
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Farmer, Lesley S. J. – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2015
This article explains information architecture, focusing on comic arts' features for representing and structuring knowledge. Then it details information design theory and information behaviors relative to this format, also noting visual literacy. Next , applications of comic arts in education are listed. With this background, several research…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Information Management, Design, Visual Literacy
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Helms, T. C.; Doetkott, C. – Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 2007
This educational software was developed to aid teachers and students in their understanding of how the process of identifying the most likely quantitative trait loci (QTL) position is determined between two flanking DNA markers. The objective of the software that we developed was to: (1) show how a QTL is mapped to a position on a chromosome using…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Least Squares Statistics, Genetics, Hypothesis Testing