The Quality of Students’ Mind Mapping at IAIN Bukittinggi

Abstract

Commonly, many students still get difficulty in reading compehension. It is hard for them to gain the essence of information among the overlapping sentences. Therefore, the lecturer provides them strategies to handle it. Among others is mind mapping strategy which facilitates the students in acquiring the important informations of the textbook effectively. This study dealt with investigating of the quality of students‟ mind mapping. This is a descriptive research by using mix method. The data collection included the documentation of mind mapping, reading comprehension test, and observation. The result concluded that the lecturer had applied the mind mapping strategy optimally and also fasilitated the students with iMindMap application. Due to the quality and the scoring system of the students‟ mind mapping were good. Since, the mind mapping was a learned-skill, optimizing, controlling and practicing on students‟ mind mapping were needed in order to achieve the maximum usefulness.