Using graph centrality as a global index to assess students’ mental model structure development during summary writing

Volume: 69, Issue: 2, Pages: 971 - 1002
Published: Jan 28, 2021
Abstract
During reading, students construct mental models of what they read. Summaries can be used to evaluate the latent knowledge structure of these mental models. We used indices from Student Mental Model Analyzer for Research and Teaching (SMART) to explore the potential of a global index, Graph Centrality (GC), as a measure to describe mental model structure and its relation to the quality of student summaries (e.g., the amount of content-coverage)....
Paper Details
Title
Using graph centrality as a global index to assess students’ mental model structure development during summary writing
Published Date
Jan 28, 2021
Volume
69
Issue
2
Pages
971 - 1002
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