Most of the time I hear that concept maps are used to evaluate learning. Unknown to some teachers, a concept map is indeed a good diagnostic tool for determining prior knowledge of the students to the concepts still to be taken up.
If the pedagogy one adopts is constructivist, it is imperative that the teacher has to build new knowledge on the previous one. The teacher in order to activate prior knowledge will most likely just throw a question about the concept to be discussed. Based on the students right or wrong responses, he will build upon his lesson; however, this may be an invalid way of eliciting prior knowledge.
If the students have language deficiency and thus cannot express himself much orally, a concept map of the topic still to be discussed may be helpful.
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