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Concept Mapping for Planning and Evaluation is a thorough, accessible guide to concept mapping for social or organizational researchers in any context. With straightforward language and useful examples from their 40 combined years of creating and working with this process, authors Mary Kane and William MK Trochim describe in detail the six major steps in conducting group concept mapping. This book provides a complete guide to the steps in the concept mapping process. Readers are introduced to the process operations of concept mapping as well as the equally important facilitation and guidance techniques developed by the authors. Each process phase benefits from detailed treatment in its own chapter, followed by summarizing closing chapters and a chapter on the application of results. It also offers detailed, accessible descriptions of the statistical analyses involved in concept mapping: These …