Article Review:
The article From Puzzles to Problems: Assessing the Value of Education in a Business Context with Concept Mapping and Pattern Matching by Andersen Consulting, Authors Daniel J. McLinden and William M.K. Trochim, stressed the importance of the perceived value of training. Assessing the value of training costs in either business and industry or the field of education is not an easy task. When I think of training programs I naturally think of improving performance. Viewing the time this exercise took to design a concept map, I feel that my teaching performance would ultimately be improved.
The concept map is a tool to communicate course objectives to the student, the parent, the institution, basically all stakeholders. The article stated that in educational evaluation, it is not as easy to demonstrate cost savings. Value must “encompass methods that can deal with the psychological and sociological complexity of the educational enterprise. Such methods need to be able both to measure value in the development and delivery of a complex service and communicate clearly the results to business people not necessarily interested in the fine points of complex statistics and research design” (pg. 287).
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Paula,
What a great looking concept map - more complicated than Inspiration would permit you to create easily, but certainly seems to fit your needs well.
Glad this example (and software) was shared with other classmates.
Well done! ~ Datta Kaur
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