Purpose: Concept mapping, as a teaching strategy, has been shown to promote critical
thinking and problem solving in educational settings. Dental clinicians must distinguish …

Objectives Concept mapping is used to promote critical thinking and meaningful learning in
health professions education. This study aimed to evaluate dental undergraduates' …

Instruction can be described as existing on a continuum from teacher-centered/content-
oriented to student-centered/learner-oriented actions (Ertmer & Newby, 1993; Passmore …

There is increasing awareness in the health sciences of the potential of qualitative research
to address questions that quantitative research cannot satisfactorily answer. While a growing …

The aim of this paper is to present concept mapping as a tool for enhancing clinical dental
education and develops the authors' argument for the use of concept mapping presented …

To be academically successful, nursing students need to know how to organize data and
connect it to previously acquired knowledge. Concept mapping is an organizational strategy …

Purpose: Health care education requires students to connect classroom learning with patient
care. The purpose of this study was to explore dental hygiene students' perceptions of …

Abstract Concept maps are graphic representations that learners draw to depict their
understanding of the meaning of a set of concepts. Concept maps can be a useful learning …

Abstract Purpose/Objectives (1) to assess the ability of dental students to use mind maps to
express the relationships of endodontic theory and technique;(2) to explore features …

While the utility of concept mapping has been widely reported in primary and secondary
educational contexts, its application in the health sciences in higher education has been …