Collaborative research with other institutions - process mapping and learning
Process mapping and learning is a collection of collaborative researchers utilising a microanalytic method called process mapping.
Process mapping was developed by Gerry Corrigan for his doctoral research at The University of Sydney. Process mapping enables learners’ decisions to be analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively and as a research approach will continue to contribute to the ongoing analysis of learning.
Process mapping is a method that extracts a person’s decision-making and their reasoning behind that decision-making and represents this information sequentially, in the form of a process map. The resultant process map reveals the precise detail of an individual’s decision-making, making what is generally tacit and unknown, explicit and available for review and analysis. Process mapping provides a basis for feedback to learners and from that, learning.
Process mapping research provides feedback about learning by unpacking the black-box process of decision-making and precisely mapping out how and why people made the decisions they did. The research projects utilizing process mapping are designed to explore how learners go about the business of learning. All current and proposed projects are based in medical education, though there is no reason to confine this research method to that specific area.
The principal investigators also welcome and encourage new, undefined projects in any area of learning that could utilize this microanalytic method.
Status of projects
Current:
1. Process mapping and students’ engagement with clinical reasoning in problem-based learning (collaboration with the School of Rural Medicine, Charles Sturt University).
2. Collaboration in problem-based learning (collaboration between the School of Rural Medicine, Charles Sturt University and Australian National University).
3. Using process mapping to better understand clinical reasoning during an authentic clinical assessment task (collaboration with Deakin University, the School of Rural Medicine, Charles Sturt University and Australian National University).
Planned/Open:
1. Longitudinal mapping of learning in problem-based learning (multiple-year longitudinal study).
2. Knowledge acquisition in problem-based learning.
3. How do learners acquire clinical reasoning skills in problem-based learning?
Project team
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS
Associate Professor Gerry Corrigan
Research Centres
School of Rural Medicine, Charles Sturt University (Gerry Corrigan)