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The Synthesis Map Is a Multidimensional Educational Tool That Provides Insight into Students' Mental Models and Promotes Students' Synthetic Knowledge Generation
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Ortega, Ryan A.; Brame, Cynthia J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2015
Concept mapping was developed as a method of displaying and organizing hierarchical knowledge structures. Using the new, multidimensional presentation software Prezi, we have developed a new teaching technique designed to engage higher-level skills in the cognitive domain. This tool, synthesis mapping, is a natural evolution of concept mapping,…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Teaching Methods, Cancer, Biology