KB-Mixed: A Reconstruction and Improvable Concept Map to Enhance Meaningful Learning and Knowledge Structure

Abstract

Kit Build (KB) is a closed-ended and reconstruction concept map that proven positive effects in assessment and learning regarding learners' knowledge understanding. The KB design emphasizes the centralization of teacher understanding that would be reconstructed by learners and ignores their knowledge structure itself. This study focused on a new extension of the KB concept map reconstruction, which is combined with the open-ended style called KB-Mixed. KB-Mixed does not only aim to increase knowledge understanding, but also enhance meaningful learning and facilitate knowledge structure. This study involved university students as participants who were divided into two groups, experimental and control. Students in the experimental group were requested to construct concept maps using the KB-Mixed method, while those in the control group used the open-ended concept map which called Extended Scratch-Build (ESB). The experiment results indicated that KB-Mixed outperformed the control group in terms of knowledge understanding and knowledge structure.