CmapAnalysis

CmapAnalysis is a lightweight utility designed to lend you a hand with the analysis over the sets of concept maps. Generally speaking, a concept map is used in education and mostly in the field of psychology to gather information about mental representations of concept associations. In other words, these maps constitute a quantifiable methodology that permits the measurement of abstract data.

The measurements that you can make via this tool range from simple counts of concepts and propositions to more complex calculations such as identifying the top three most central concepts in each and every map. The results are displayed in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that features an individual row for each concept analyzed. As you probably hinted, the columns include each of the desired measurements. On a side note, the app should also be able to open CXL file formats and hence, permit you to use concept maps developed with specific tools.

According to the developer, the program should be able to handle large sets of concept maps, thus making it a good choice for various empirical studies where data measurement would be otherwise be hard, if not possible to measure. For instance, you can use it in a study to gather the perception of a given representative sample of the population.