Investigation of Reliability of Kit-Build Concept Map and Collaborative Approach to Build Sharable Knowledge

Abstract

This paper describes an investigation of a reliability of automatic evaluation of concept map in the framework of Kit-Build concept map and procedure for using it in a collaborative approach to building sharable knowledge. Kit-build concept map is used as the learning task of the concept map for enhancing and assessing learners’ comprehension of a topic, which they already learned. This framework is practically used in several kinds of school, but the reliability of assessment has not been investigated. So we try to examine the reliability of assessment of Kit-Build concept map by comparing with the handmade concept map evaluation method that is claimed as the reliability evaluation method for scoring concept map. Because the handmade method is used by a human who can understand the meaning of proposition in the concept map, even the used words do not contain in learning material. After the reliability of our framework is confirmed, we try to propose the collaborative approach that applies Kit-Build concept map for building shareable knowledge between learners. For making the different understanding to the same direction, the collaborative knowledge construction approach is implemented to Kit-Build framework. Learners have to make their concept maps and use the reciprocal Kit-Building that contains summarizing, questioning, clarifying and predicting for sharing their understanding on the different viewpoints, and they must try to harmonize the agreement and disagreement part of the topic.