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Article

Testing of a Program to Automatically Analyze Students’ Concept Maps

by
Robert Hubal
1,*,
Laura Bobbitt
1,
Sarah Garfinkle
1,
Suzanne C. Harris
1,2,
Brandon D. Powell
2,
Madison S. Oxley
3,
Heidi N. Anksorus
1 and
Kevin Y. Chen
2
1
Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
2
Department of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
3
Department of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Pharmacy 2020, 8(4), 209; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8040209
Submission received: 11 September 2020 / Revised: 29 October 2020 / Accepted: 5 November 2020 / Published: 7 November 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technology-Enhanced Pharmacy Teaching and Learning Strategies)
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Concept maps are graphical representations of how various concepts relate to one another. Assessment of concept maps developed by students in the pharmacy curriculum helps to evaluate student understanding of course material. However, providing feedback on concept maps can be time-consuming and often requires the grader to be a content expert. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a software program to provide students with feedback on their concept map performance. Student maps for four different disease states were compared against expert concept maps. The analysis of the program compared favorably to a manual assessment of student maps for the maps’ complexity and content but did not correlate for their organization. The value of using a software program to quickly and efficiently analyze concept maps is discussed.
Keywords: concept maps; software analysis; student assessment concept maps; software analysis; student assessment

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Hubal, R.; Bobbitt, L.; Garfinkle, S.; Harris, S.C.; Powell, B.D.; Oxley, M.S.; Anksorus, H.N.; Chen, K.Y. Testing of a Program to Automatically Analyze Students’ Concept Maps. Pharmacy 2020, 8, 209. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8040209

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Hubal R, Bobbitt L, Garfinkle S, Harris SC, Powell BD, Oxley MS, Anksorus HN, Chen KY. Testing of a Program to Automatically Analyze Students’ Concept Maps. Pharmacy. 2020; 8(4):209. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8040209

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Hubal, Robert, Laura Bobbitt, Sarah Garfinkle, Suzanne C. Harris, Brandon D. Powell, Madison S. Oxley, Heidi N. Anksorus, and Kevin Y. Chen. 2020. "Testing of a Program to Automatically Analyze Students’ Concept Maps" Pharmacy 8, no. 4: 209. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8040209

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Hubal, R., Bobbitt, L., Garfinkle, S., Harris, S. C., Powell, B. D., Oxley, M. S., Anksorus, H. N., & Chen, K. Y. (2020). Testing of a Program to Automatically Analyze Students’ Concept Maps. Pharmacy, 8(4), 209. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8040209

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