Research Paper Use of Concept Mapping Techniques and Technologies for Education and Performance Support

I have read the research paper about the Conceptual mapping techniques, the history of conceptual maps, structure of conceptual maps, usage in Educational, Business, and Governmental areas, comparison of conceptual maps with other mapping technologies and softwares or tools in which conceptual maps delevelop.

Conceptual maps are visual representaion of graph like structure that represents the knowledge consists of concepts and the relationship between them.


In the Concept Mapping process, the first step is the identification of the problem, after identification

The focus question are identifying and listing the most important or “general” concepts
that are associated with the topic, ordering the concepts from top to bottom in the
mapping field, means that the general concepts are on the top in the hierarchy and less general are at the bottom of tree. Then adding and labeling linking phrases. Once the preliminary Concept has been built, cross-links are identified and added, and a review of the map for
completeness and correctness is performed.

Conceptual maps used in Educational, Business, and Governmental areas,

In Educational areas one of the original uses of conceptual mapping is the assessment of what a learner knows. It also used to to improve affective conditions for learning, and to teach critical thinking.

In Business, and Governmental areas Concept Mapping can be used for knowledge capture – for the elicitation of expert knowledge that an organization might wish to preserve and share with others.

Concept Maps with other types of mapping systems, such as Knowledge Maps, Cognitive Maps, and Mind Maps. The Concept Map representation subsumes all the other types of graphical
representations of knowledge. The great thing with the concept mapps that it has not such limited rules or limitations like in all other mappings.

There are huge number of softwares and tools which support to build Conceptual maps (graph like structures): like Inspiration, SMART Ideas, Hypersoft Knowledge Manager,
Axon Idea Processor, LifeMap etc. There are some other softwares which is regarding to
Semantic Networking Tool and Mind Mapping Tools.