Abstract This is a methodological article describing how a national social work education research project constructed a taxonomy of educational terms and used database and data visualization software to map the social work curriculum in New Zealand. Mapping the curriculum is difficult enough in the context of a single educational program, however, representing and exploring curriculum topics across the 14 different educational institutions participating in this study presented formidable difficulties. This article explores the approach to curriculum mapping used by the research team and discusses the technologies and information science principles used to classify, map, and visualize curriculum content. It will explain how the researchers constructed a taxonomy of over 600 educational terms, describe how the taxonomy was used to index 402 curriculum documents in a relational database, and illustrate the creation of curriculum visualizations using the Tableau™ data visualization software. The way in which findings from this part of the study will inform subsequent phases of the research will be discussed. The strengths and limitations of the methodology will be noted and opportunities to use the assets created by the project for future endeavors identified.

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绘制和可视化社会工作课程

摘要这是一篇方法论文章，描述了一个国家社会工作教育研究项目如何构建教育术语分类法，以及如何使用数据库和数据可视化软件来映射新西兰的社会工作课程。在单个教育计划的背景下，绘制课程表足够困难，但是，代表和探索参与该研究的14个不同教育机构中的课程主题带来了巨大的困难。本文探讨了研究团队使用的课程映射方法，并讨论了用于对课程内容进行分类，映射和可视化的技术和信息科学原理。它将说明研究人员如何构建600多个教育术语的分类法，描述如何使用分类法为关系数据库中的402课程文档编制索引，并说明如何使用Tableau™数据可视化软件创建课程可视化。将讨论本部分研究结果为后续研究提供信息的方式。将指出该方法的优点和局限性，并确定将项目创建的资产用于未来工作的机会。