The origins of the concept mapping tool and the continuing evolution of the tool

A research program at Cornell University that sought to study the ability of first and second grade children to acquire basic science concepts and the effect of this learning on later schooling led to the need for a new tool to describe explicit changes in children's conceptual understanding. Concept mapping was invented in 1972 to meet this need, and subsequently numerous other uses have been found for this tool. Underlying the research program and the development of the concept mapping tool was an explicit cognitive psychology of learning and an explicit constructivist epistemology. In 1987, collaboration began between Novak and Ca

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: IVS
• Authors: Joseph D. Novak, Alberto J. Cañas
• Keywords: Concept Mapping, IVS 2006, Research Program, Tools