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Teaching Critical Thinking and Team Based Concept Mapping

Teaching Critical Thinking and Team Based Concept Mapping
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Author(s): Dawndra Meers-Scott (Texas Tech University, USA), LesLee Taylor (Texas Tech University, USA)and John Pelley (Texas Tech University, USA)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 16
Source title: Handbook of Research on Collaborative Learning Using Concept Mapping
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Patricia Lupion Torres (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil)and Rita de Cássia Veiga Marriott (University of Birmingham, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-992-2.ch009

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Abstract

Critical thinking cannot be fully developed without involvement in collaborative learning activities that elicit problem solving dialogue. Concept maps are effective tools for dialogue because they require decisions about the organization of and the relationships between facts and concepts. This active decision making process develops both long term memory and the ability to apply that knowledge. The authors describe a new method for incorporating scored concept maps into an established collaborative learning method, Team-Based Learning, as a way to improve the effectiveness of individual preparation and for enhancing the problem solving dialogue during group activities. Their new method, Team-Based Concept Mapping, has advantages for students with different personality types and with different backgrounds because it provides greater clarity and precision in the group dialogue. The effect of concept mapping on the interaction between different personality types is discussed and suggestions for future studies to develop this method are offered.

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