Kit-build concept mapping for being aware of the gap of exchanged information in collaborative reading of the literature

Abstract

This paper reports a result of the trial use of the kit-build method in a lesson conducted in a graduate school. The purpose of the lesson is that students understand the content of a book collaboratively. The problem to be addressed here is that it is difficult to acknowledge the discrepancies between a presentation and their own understanding. To solve it this study uses Kit-build concept mapping. Through collaborative reading of the literature with kit-build concept mapping in classroom students could find the problems in their own presentation and tried to refine it with concrete information about the others' misunderstanding. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.