The Relationship between Accuracy in Students’ Causal Diagrams

Will present in 2010 AECT conference at Anaheim

The Relationship between Accuracy in Students’ Causal Diagrams, Total links, Temporal Flow, and Node Positions

Woon Jee Lee & Allan Jeong

The purpose of this study was to identify what types of requirements can be placed into causal mapping activities to improve accuracy in students’ diagrams. A case-study approach was used to examine the correlation between the accuracy of students’ causal diagrams (ratio of correctly/incorrectly identified root causes, and total number of correctly identified root links) and three structural qualities: total number of causal links (parsimony), ratio of right/left pointing links (temporal flow), and distance of outcome node from left edge of screen (node position).

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