Perhaps surprisingly to its passionate fans, concept mapping might not be the most effective way to prepare for a test that will require concept mapping.
The second experiment focused only on concept mapping and retrieval practice testing, with each student doing an exercise using each method. In this initial phase, researchers reported, students who made diagrams while consulting the passage included more detail than students asked to recall what they had just read in an essay.
But when they were evaluated a week later, the students in the testing group did much better than the concept mappers. They even did better when they were evaluated not with a short-answer test but with a test requiring them to draw a concept map from memory.
Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com
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