Using Propositions for the Assessment of Structural Knowledge

Figures & data

Figure 1 — Example of a concept map

Table 1 - Relationships demonstrated by subject #8, according to PCM, MPM and OQ (a ‘+’ means ‘relationship indicated as present’, ‘-’ means ‘relationship indicated as not present’).

	Relationships
	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7
PCM	−	+	−	+	−	−	+
MPM	−	+	−	+	−	−	+
OQ	−	−	−	−	−	−	+

Figure 2 — PCM by subject #8

Table 2 - Detection of relationships by MPM and PCM (cells give the number of subjects for whom the particular relationship was detected).

	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7
PCM	5	10	8	10	8	0	6
MPM	8	10	2	9	7	6	6
OQ	2	0	0	2	0	1	4

Table 3 - Number of relationships that were evaluated consonantly or dissonantly by PCM and MPM.

Subject	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	#10
#cons.	5	5	4	6	7	4	5	7	4	5
#diss.	2	2	3	1	0	3	2	0	3	2

Table 4 - Number of times that a relationship was detected by MPM but not by PCM, and vice versa (maximum number equals the sample size of 10)

	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7
MPM yes, PCM no	3	0	0	0	0	6	1
PCM yes, MPM no	0	0	6	1	1	0	1

Table 5 - Number of obscure and erroneous relationships detected by PCM and MPM

	PCM	MPM
Obscure	1	8
Erroneous	2	10

Figure 3 — PCM by subject #3