Concept Mapping in Simulation within Nursing Education: A Scoping Review Protocol

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear authors, the work cannot be valued correctly because it is incomplete.

The search strategy used is missing, as well as the prism diagram to describe the sample of articles selected in the review.

Practically the study ends in methodology and results, discussion and conclusions do not appear. They are requested to complete the work to be reviewed.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Dear Editor,

Thank you for the opportunity to review the article "Concept mapping in simulation within nursing education: A scoping review protocol" which aims to identify find out what is known about the context, processes, and outcomes of concept map-72 ping in simulation within nursing education.

The article is well written.

From a methodological point of view, in the inclusion criteria it mentions the inclusion of systematic reviews. If there are already systematic review studies on the subject why do this review?

In relation to the starting question why IOP (source of justification for this terminology) and not SCA as recommended by the JBI. 

The registration of the review remains to be done.

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Reviewer 3 Report

the work is well done and following the rigors of the Prisma protocol, and its objective.

The conceptual map is an instrument that has shown great utility in achieving significant learning over time, as one more tool within teaching-learning. Concept maps are described as schematic cognitive structures that represent organized groups of concepts.

They are part of the design of learning activities, such as BRUNER's theory, The individual builds his own knowledge as a result of his interaction with the environment.

I believe in techno-pedagogical design and its tools to be able to evaluate students and in the technologies of how we have to implement them as novelties, but it is true that this use of maps is a very worked subject in education, and that it does not bring much interest beyond presented, helps us in the design of simulation activities within nursing classrooms.

Author Response

Thank you for this feedback. We appreciate the support.

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

I continue commenting that the manuscript presents insufficient content and that it does not reach the minimums of the journal. 

Authors should expand the introduction and methods following the PRISMA statement. Even if it is a scoping review, they must include and detail the results, discussion and conclusions of the study.

Author Response

Thank you for your feedback.

We feel that there is a misunderstanding here.

This paper is not a scoping review.

It is a protocol for a scoping review. In other words, it is a step-by-step description of how a scoping review will be carried out.