Cartographic experience and thinking aloud about thematic maps
Cartographic experience and thinking aloud about thematic maps
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制图经验和对专题地图的大声思考
DOI:
10.3138/h61j-vx35-j6ww-8111
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发表时间:
1992
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W. Stock
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R. W. Kulhavy;D. Pridemore;W. Stock
High school students and college geography majors studied a thematic map titled the Ancient Mayan World. During the 15-minute study period subjects produced 'think aloud' data by describing the processes they used to encode the map. An analysis of the verbal protocols yielded no important differences due to sex of subject or instructions to learn the map. Cartographically experienced college subjects tended to emphasize theme information rather than geography, displayed wider scanning ranges during initial map viewing, and produced more inference and context information during a map reconstruction task. These results suggest that cartographic experience predicts the type of information learned from a complex map. Des etudiants des niveaux secondaire et collegial, avec specialite en geographie, ont etudie une carte thematique intitulee L'ancien monde Maya. Au cours de la periode d'etude de quinze minutes, les sujets ont emis des commentaires verbaux en decrivant les processus utilises pour encoder la carte...