Use of Concept Mapping in Nursing Education

Abstract

Background : Concept mapping is a way of representing the organization of knowledge. It is a visual graphic, a web diagram for exploring knowledge and gathering and sharing information. "Concept maps are two dimensional representations of cognitive structures showing the hierarchies and the interconnections of concepts involved in a discipline or sub discipline." It consists of nodes or cells that contain a concept or question & links. The links are denoted by the direction with arrow or symbol. Labeled links explain the relationship between the nodes; where as the arrow marks describe the direction of the relationship.