Diagnosis and Treatment of Students’ Misconceptions with an Intelligent Concept Mapping Tool

Abstract

AbstractThis paper focuses on a new intelligent concept mapping tool that has been created in order to diagnose and treat students’ misconceptions. This tool enables the teacher to: (a)create a detailed digital concept map of thelearning concept in question, (b) create a closed-ended interactive questionnaire attached to each node of the aforementioned concept map to evaluate students’ knowledge about each specific sub-concept, (c) diagnose the misconceptions of each student and the class as a whole (d) attach appropriate learning materials for the learning of each sub-concept, and (e) automatically assign appropriate learning materials to each student, based on the automatic diagnosis of her/his misconceptions. An example of the use of said intelligent concept mapping tool is also given