Preliminary Review of Assessment Technologies Visualizing Knowledge Structure: Exploring an Alternative Approach

This is an exploratory study aimed at devising methodologies and technologies for creating concept maps from everyday language input from students. The concept maps have potential uses for formative assessment and feedback. An innovative approach based on semantic relationships is compared with current methods involving proximity relationships and adjacency. The semantic relation approach appears to have the potential to enable concept maps to be more usable as the basis for formative assessments and feedback.