Evaluating the Effectiveness of Situational Case-Based Teaching: A View of Concept Mapping

摘要：

　　Situational case-based teaching is one of promising teaching strategies in engineering education,e.g.,computer science and information security.This strategy is student-centered and can reinforce practical experience and context-aware problem solving.In this paper,we propose a novel evaluation framework by applying concept mapping to address the great concern of comparing different teaching strategies.Specifically,the proposed evaluation framework consists of four phases,i.e.,concept map construction,concept map converting,multidimensional scaling and clustering analysis.The evaluating results based on concept mapping over a demo course reveal the following two statements: (a) Situational cases can help learners learn important concepts and organize their relationships with the goal of practical problem solving in engineering courses;(b) Compared with the conventional lecture strategy,the situational case-based one is helpful for learners to achieve high-level cognitive outcomes,e.g.,antagonistic thinking.

关键词： Situational case-based teaching concept mapping engineering education multidimensional scaling clustering analysis

作者: Qiang Liu Jiao Ji Juan Chen Wentao Zhao Jianping Yin

作者单位: College of Computer National University of Defense Technology Changsha, Hunan, China Central South University Changsha, Hunan, China Dongguan University of Technology Dongguan, Guangdong, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2018中国图灵大会(ACM Turing Celebration conference-China 2018)

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 60-66

在线出版日期: 2018-05-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）