The Effectiveness of Concept Map as a Learning-teaching Strategy on Cognitive-affective Outputs of Biology Learning

The concept map is a teaching-learning strategy that facilitates learning meaningful. The comparison of concept map presenting and constructing methods efficacy is a research problem in recent years and the findings are contradictory. This paper compared the efficacy of concept map presenting and concept map constructing methods on cognitive outputs (retention, understanding and problem solving) and affective output (attitudes toward school, attitudes toward teacher and classroom, goal-valuation, motivation, and general academic self-perceptions) in the biology learning class. The intervening effects on cognitive outputs were measured by two academic achievement tests. Also, the school attitude assessment survey-revised was used to assess affective outputs. These instruments had the confirmable validity and reliability indices. The research was based on a quasi-experiment design. The pre-organized classrooms were selected by the purposive sampling as four experiment and two control groups. The prepared concept maps were presented in the process of teaching on two experiment groups and two other groups constructed concept maps from the instructed subjects. The results showed that the concept map presenting and concept map constructing methods had positive effect on recall and understanding but these methods had not any meaningful effect on problem solving. Also preprepared concept maps had positive effects on attitude toward teacher and classroom and constructing concept map had positive effect on motivation and self-regulation.