Diagnosis And Treatment Of Students' Misconceptions With An Intelligent Concept Mapping Tool

This 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 the learning 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. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.