ON USE OF MIND MAPS FOR PREPARATION OF STUDENTS FOR INTERMEDIATE CONTROL

Author(s):  E.N. Galushina, candidate of Sciences, Prof. V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, e.n.galushina@gmail.com

M. S. Apanovich, candidate of Sciences, no, Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Prof. V. F. Voino-Yasenetsky, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, marina.apanovich@list.ru

P.V. Galushin, candidate of Sciences, Siberian Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, galushin@gmail.com

Issue:  Volume 38, № 2

Rubric:  Pedagogics

Annotation:  Due to the huge amount of incoming information for students, there is a problem of filtering, evaluating, understanding and structuring this information, without which effective training is impossible. One of the tools that can help solve this problem is infographics, that is, a graphical representation of information. The ability to effectively apply such methods in the cognitive activity is the essence of visual literacy, the importance of which is due to the leading role of vision in the perception of information from the outside world. The purpose of this article was the scientific substantiation of the effectiveness of the use of visual methods (in particular, mental maps) by students to prepare for intermediate control. The study was conducted at the Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Professor V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky among first-year students of the specialty "Clinical Psychology" in the discipline "Modern Information Technologies". For drawing mental maps, the authors use a tool from Google – Coggle.it. The article gives an overview of the capabilities of this software in the Free version. A comparison was made of the average scores of student groups, one of which used mental maps to prepare for the interview for the discipline, while the other did not. To determine the statistical significance of the impact of the transition to the technology of mental maps in preparing for the interview, Student's criterion for incoherent samples was used without assumption of the equality of the variances. Statistical processing was performed using free software for statistical processing of data PSPP. As a result, the statistical significance of the difference in the average score for the interview was equal to 0.605 points between the 2017-2018 and 2016-2017 school years with a significance level 0.002.

Keywords:  infographics, visual literacy, information culture, mind map, PSPP

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