Mining concept maps from news stories for measuring civic scientific literacy in media

Computers and Education

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 165-177

  Tseng, Yuen Hsien ^a   Chang, Chun Yen ^b   Rundgren, Shu Nu Chang ^c   Rundgren, Carl Johan ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Evaluation methodologies; Lifelong learning; Media in education

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION ,; CO-OCCURRENCE; CONCEPT MAPS; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; INDEX TERMS; INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT; LIFE LONG LEARNING; LONG-TERM GOALS; NEWS ARTICLES; RULE BASED ALGORITHMS; SCIENCE TEXTBOOK; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; SCIENTIFIC LITERACY; SCIENTIFIC TERMS; TERM RELATIONSHIP;

MINING;

EID: 77949655287     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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