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Knowledge Mapping (VKM) is a technique that can be used to
help groups faculty, administrators, and students to clarify
their ideas, individually and then collectively, about the
nature of good teaching and good courses.
Such a map of their vision of good educational outcomes and
practices can then be used to create an item bank or set of
survey questions for student course evaluation.
A form of concept mapping, VKM asks
participants in focus groups to become explicit about
important teaching/learning experiences and the factors that
made those experiences so important. Visible Knowledge
Mapping typically begins by asking participants to describe
important teaching/learning experiences in which they have
participated. Variations on the approach could start with
more targeted prompts, e.g., "general education"
experiences, or experiences that helped the participant
learned to write.
By analyzing the 'maps' created by many such
groups at an institution, and combining those elements with
results from pertinent research on education, a committee
can develop a set of items for a feedback form, items that
represent both community judgment and research about the
elements of courses that most influence quality and
outcomes.
Questions?
Please contact Steve Gilbert at
gilbert@tltgroup.org
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