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Meena Kharatmal


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Research Area

 

I am a Ph.D. student. The area of my research work falls into Knowledge Representation particularly focusing in Science Education.

 

Our approach investigates the representation of scientific knowledge by focusing on the relation names rather than

on the concept names. Usually a proposition comprises of concepts and relation names (linking words). Concepts attain

meaning from the relations with other concepts. ...

 

Thesis Topic

 

Effectiveness of Refined Concept Maps in Science Education.

 

Objectives

  • To represent the domain of Cell Biology at the school, college and undergraduate level: This involves to represent

the structures and process of cell biology. I use refined concept maps (RCM) for representing the structural aspects. The

refined concept maps are development over the traditional concept maps. The RCM focuses on the use of a set of

relation names for mapping in order to resolve the ambiguities and bring in rigor in representation of scientific knowledge.

For representing the processes, I am applying the state-change model i.e. depicting processes as changes in the state of

structures.

  • To develop a minimal set of relation names:
  • To develop a set of process names:
  • To apply the RCM & Process Modelling in school, college, university student:
  • To compare the representation of novice and expert:
  • To trace the conceptual change in learning by applying the KR model:

Areas of Interest

Knowledge Representation, Cognitive Science, Educational Psychology, Science Education,

Refined Concept Maps, Conceptual Change, Novice-Expert, Structure and Dynamics of Knowledge,

History and Philosophy of Science, bio-ontology, cell biology, biology education

Visiting Student

  • Mimos, Semantic Web Technology Lab, Kualalumpur, Malaysia
  • University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
  • Institute of Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, Florida, USA

Publications

 

  • Meena Kharatmal & Nagarjuna G.: Introducing rigor in concept maps. In M. Croitoru, S. Ferre, and D. Lukose (Eds.), ICCS 2010, LNAI 6208, pp. 199-202, Springer Verlag 2010.


Virtual Existence

 

 

Conferences

 

International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Kuching, Malaysia, July 2010

 

epiSTEME 3, Mumbai, India, Jan 2009

 

epiSTEME 2, Mumbai, India, Jan 2007

 

Concept Mapping Conference, Costa Rica, Sep 2006 

 

epiSTEME 1, Goa, India, Dec 2004

 

 



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