Efficient Learning Maps (eLms) ©: a software application to learn and teach Visual Logic Maps (vLms) © with preliminary assessment results Michael TangScience, Technology and Society, STSCollege of Engineering and Applied ScienceUniversity of Colorado DenverMichael.tang@ucdenver.eduYiming ZhaoComputer ScienceCollege of Engineering and Applied ScienceUniversity of Colorado DenverYiming.Zhao@ucdenver.eduKaren Knaus, Corresponding AuthorChemistryCollege of Liberal Arts and SciencesUniversity of Colorado DenverKaren.knaus@ucdenver.eduThe changing conception of intelligence is one of the most powerful [and] liberating forces ever to influence the restructuring of education, schools, and society.Arthur L. Costa (2008).Abstract This paper presents the results of preliminary assessments of a Visual Logic Maps (vLms) learning system, an intervention method to teach underprepared college students the construction of concept maps with the goal of improving their higher order thinking skills in STEM disciplines. A preliminary study has shown that hand drawn Visual Logic Maps may improve higher-order thinking skills as measured by the College Board, a reading comprehension assessment tool ACCUPLACER. Other experiments and further research, especially in constructionist learning theory have shown that constructing these kind of maps, also known as concept maps, may result in greater net learning gains in STEM content, conceptual and algorithmic knowledge. In addition to presenting the results of these experiments along with the research guiding the experiments the paper describes an ancillary software application, Efficient Learning Maps © that constructs Visual Logic Maps and can be used as an education technology to teach students how to use these maps more effectively. Using a mapping engine to construct the concept Visual Logic Maps successfully may result in an education intervention technology that will help underprepared STEM students increase their thinking skills and increase academic achievement on the pre-college and university level.
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