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Personal meaning maps as an assessment tool for a Planetarium session: a study with primary school children

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: This study aims to analyse the potentialities of using Personal Meaning Maps to assess school children’s learning in a visit to a Planetarium. A total of 123 primary students were involved. They were asked to create a PMM, and a drawing, before and after the visit. The results suggest that the visit enhanced the degree to which students generate words and conceptual categories to describe their understanding of the suggested concepts. PMMs seemed to be a good tool to evaluate the impact of the activities on students’ ideas about the thematic explored. Drawings helped to understand the main misconceptions.

Source: Education 3-13

DOI: 10.1080/03004279.2019.1574855

Authors: C. Faria, D. Boaventura, E. Guilherme

Institutions: Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, University of Lisbon, Escola Superior de Educação de João de Deus

Language: English

Topic: Museums and Cultural Heritage

Subfield: Museology

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funder: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia