Measuring conceptual understanding: a case study

IT Educators are challenged with the task of providing learning experiences that helps learners build abstract mental models of IT concepts to help solve the complex, ill-defined problems they will face. But of the many instructional strategies discussed in the literature how can we tell which methods are better for the different types of IT knowledge presented. Can we assess how well different instructional strategies affect student's conceptual understanding of IT concepts? This descriptive study examined one possible way of measuring conceptual understanding of a specific learning activity called Model Eliciting Activates (MEAs).