Predicting problem-solving performance using concept map
Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works (RGC: 12, 32, 41, 45) › 32_Refereed conference paper (with ISBN/ISSN) › peer-review
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Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | PACIS 2007 - 11th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Managing Diversity in Digital Enterprises |
Publication status | Published - 2007 |
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Title | 11th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Managing Diversity in Digital Enterprises (PACIS 2007) |
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Location | Langham Hotel |
Place | New Zealand |
City | Auckland |
Period | 4 - 6 July 2007 |
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Abstract
A growing community of researchers applies the concept map for elicitation and representation individual's knowledge structure especially within knowledge-intensive processes in organizations. As an extension of prior works on concept map, this study aims to explore a new indicator of structural properties of concept map from an information entropy perspective to predict an individual's problem-solving performance. From the information processing view of problem-solving, Information Theory provides the framework to formulate a new indicator called EntropyAvg. A controlled experiment was carried out to validate the predictive ability of the new indicator. The results demonstrate that EntropyAvg is able to estimate an individual's problem-solving performance beyond two other widely adopted indicators, i.e., complexity and integration. The theoretical and practical contributions of this study are also discussed.
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- Information entropy, Information theory, Problem solving
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Predicting problem-solving performance using concept map. / Hao, Jin-Xing; Kwok, Ron Chi-Wai; Lau, Raymond Yiu-Keung.
PACIS 2007 - 11th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Managing Diversity in Digital Enterprises. 2007.Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works (RGC: 12, 32, 41, 45) › 32_Refereed conference paper (with ISBN/ISSN) › peer-review