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Analyzing The Structure Of Student Sustainability Knowledge Using Traditional And Holistic Concept Map Scoring Methods, Mary K. Watson, Joshua G. Pelkey, Caroline Noyes, Michael Rodgers
Analyzing The Structure Of Student Sustainability Knowledge Using Traditional And Holistic Concept Map Scoring Methods, Mary K. Watson, Joshua G. Pelkey, Caroline Noyes, Michael Rodgers
Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching & Learning Conference (2012-2019)
To properly initiate educational reforms needed to train sustainability-conscious engineers, methods are needed to assess conceptual understanding of sustainability. Concept maps (cmaps) have been proposed as useful tools for capturing the complexity and interconnectedness of sustainability; however, difficulties in scoring cmaps have limited their application as assessment tools. The goal of this project was to examine effectiveness of traditional and holistic cmap scoring approaches for characterizing student understanding of sustainability.
Cmaps were used to assess structure of student sustainability knowledge in a capstone design course and a graduate seminar in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Georgia Tech. Judges applying …