CBE—Life Sciences EducationVol. 14, No. 2 ArticlesFree AccessThe Synthesis Map Is a Multidimensional Educational Tool That Provides Insight into Students’ Mental Models and Promotes Students’ Synthetic Knowledge GenerationRyan A. Ortega, and Cynthia J. BrameRyan A. Ortega*Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235Search for more papers by this author, and Cynthia J. BrameDepartment of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, Nashville, TN 37212Search for more papers by this authorMary Lee Ledbetter, Monitoring EditorPublished Online:13 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.14-07-0114AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextSupplemental MaterialView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View articleSupplemental Materialcombinedsupmats.pdf (1 MB)FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited bySynthesizing Research Narratives to Reveal the Big Picture: a CREATE(S) Intervention Modified for Journal Club Improves Undergraduate Science LiteracyJournal of Microbiology & Biology Education, Vol. 24, No. 2Integrative Organismal Biology, Vol. 4, No. 1The Effectiveness of Concept Maps for Students’ Learning and Retention19 June 2020 | Journal of Political Science Education, Vol. 17, No. sup1Using concept maps to characterise cellular respiration knowledge in undergraduate students8 November 2018 | Journal of Biological Education, Vol. 54, No. 1Scientific Process Flowchart Assessment (SPFA): A Method for Evaluating Changes in Understanding and Visualization of the Scientific Process in a Multidisciplinary Student PopulationKristy J. Wilson, and Bessie RigakosPeggy Brickman, Monitoring Editor13 October 2017 | CBE—Life Sciences Education, Vol. 15, No. 4 Vol. 14, No. 2 June 01, 2015 Supplemental MaterialsMetrics Downloads & Citations Downloads: 332Citations: 5 History Submitted: 13 July 2014 Revised: 10 February 2015 Accepted: 12 February 2015 Information© 2015 R. A. Ortega and C. J. Brame et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2015 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe authors thank the students who agreed to participate in this study. In particular, we thank John Cao, Saad Rehman, and Emily Summerbell for allowing us to publish images from their synthesis maps and provide links to their maps in this article.PDF download