Conversations About Group Concept Mapping:Applications, Examples, and Enhancements

The Casebook for Group Concept Mapping: Applications & Enhancements by Mary Kane and Scott Rosas takes a case-based approach to teaching students and practitioners alike about concept mapping. The text starts with three chapters on concept mapping itself, defining the method, demonstrating how to design a project, and providing guidelines to analyze the results. The next four chapters are devoted to real research cases, with interviews with the researchers themselves and framing and follow-up exercises provided by the authors. Each case follows a questionnaire template so readers can easily compare and contrast cases. The cases are drawn from a wide variety of research settings, from mapping the needs of at-risk African American youth to creating dialogue within a local business community to determining the future technology needs of students to identifying the best ways to support teens receiving Supplemental Social Security Income. The authors then synthesize the cases, reflecting on the commonalities between the cases and drawing out insights into the overall group concept mapping method from each case. Suitable for motivated undergraduate students to doctoral students and individual researchers, Casebook for Group Concept Mapping provides readers with hands-on examples of applying the group concept mapping method in real research settings, helping them feel more confident in deploying this exciting method in their own research.