Uso do Compendium para mapear o conhecimento dos alunos das disciplinas fundamentais do curso de Biblioteconomia

Abstract

The visual knowledge maps are an important tool to use in learning and are characterized by considering the cognitive aspects of their users, taking into account the theory of Cognitive Psychology. This work was developed with the objective of mapping student’s knowledge from librarianship of the UFAL; these students attend basic disciplines, named as hard core disciplines. For this, it was selected as sample two monitors of the disciplines Descriptive Representation I and II and the Theme I and II, the tool used was the Compendium software. In order to construct the map of each monitor was willing subjects of disciplines: indexing and abstracting. The results show that both students after having to study the same disciplines had elaborated different maps, and one was better than the other. Mapping in advance the students' cognitive knowledge is essential to use an appropriate methodology for learning, and the Compendium is a tool that should be usedto map out students' knowledge.