ABSTRACT
This chapter gives a more detailed account of the concept mapping method which was described briefl y in the previous chapter in relation to Project REPRESENTATION. The focus here is on the analysis and interpretation of the 4,000 maps we collected from students aged between 9 and 16 during the ImpaCT2 evaluation of the National Grid for Learning. Two other maps from this large data set appear in Chapter 7 where they are used along with other data collected from the same students to give a rounded picture of their use of ICT at home. In Chapter 3 a slightly different kind of concept mapping exercise is described which we used to gain insights into the kind of ‘community of practice’ that children experienced when using the GridClub ‘edutainment’ website.
