Understanding Tree: a tool to estimate one's understanding of knowledge

Abstract

People learn whenever and wherever possible, and whatever they like or encounter-Mathematics, Drama, Art, Languages, Physics, Philosophy, and so on. With the bursting of knowledge, evaluation of one's possession of knowledge becomes increasingly difficult. There are a lot of demands to evaluate one's understanding of a piece of knowledge. Assessment of understanding of knowledge is conventionally through tests or interviews, but they have some limitations such as lowefficiency and not-comprehensive. This paper proposes a method called Understanding Tree to estimate one's understanding of knowledge, by keeping track of his/her learning activities. It overcomes some limitations of traditional methods, hence complements traditional methods.

Understanding Graph and Understanding Map and their Potential Applications

“…Fully Extended Understanding Tree (FEUT). A fully extended Understanding Tree is a tree like Figure 3 of [6]. It can be constructed manually by some experts of a domain, or automatically with Algorithm 1 of [6].…”

“…A fully extended Understanding Tree is a tree like Figure 3 of [6]. It can be constructed manually by some experts of a domain, or automatically with Algorithm 1 of [6]. Its construction is based on a collection of definitions that are self-contained.…”

“…• Accept all its definitions and all the Knowledge Points mentioned in the definitions; • Pick one definition and only accept the Knowledge Points mentioned in this definition; • Use other rules like the one mentioned in Algorithm 1 of [6].…”

“…In [6], Understanding Tree is introduced for evaluating a person's understanding degree to a piece of knowledge.…”

“…is paper introduces two more concepts, Understanding Graph and Understanding Map, and explores their potential applications. We first recap several concepts defined in previous papers [5,6]. Section 2 tells about Understanding Graph and its applications.…”