Testing concept maps electronically

Paper deals with using of concept maps in testing knowledge. Concept maps are widely used in education and business because of they aid meaningful learning, help to organize, preserve and summarize knowledge and empower creativity. One can constructe own concept map by many software electronically. But concept maps can serve as qualitative and quantitative means for testing knowledge. Common used methods of testing knowledge are one-dimensional, give relative order in class or percentage rate of accuracy, and cannot give the relations between concepts and hierarchical structure of concepts. Special software was developed and used in testing fuzzy cognitive maps that make possible modelling inner causal relations of concepts in areas or systems changing in time. Results of testing knowledge will be given.