Why Some Students Have Trouble With Maps & Spatial Representations: An On-line Tutorial for Geoscience Faculty

为什么有些学生在地图空间表示方面有困难&：本计画针对地球科学教育工作者普遍关心的议题，发展一个线上互动式教学。拟议教程的主题是地图和相关的空间表示。制作和解释地图和其他空间表示是大多数地球科学学科的核心，但这是一项少数大学生努力学习的技能。大多数大学教授很少或根本没有受过关于人们如何学习或思考的专业培训，而且作为在职教育工作者，他们几乎没有时间或基础设施进行专业发展。认知和发展研究人员已经广泛研究了理解和生成地图的认知过程，但这些见解很少达到地球科学教师。 DLESE有可能通过提供专为大学教师设计的在线专业发展材料来帮助这种情况，重点关注在教授地球科学概念和技能时常见的具体问题或问题。

ABSTRACTWhy Some Students have Trouble with Maps & Spatial Representations: an On-line Tutorial for Geoscience FacultyThis project develops an on-line interactive tutorial which addresses a topic of widespread concern to geoscience educators. The topic for the proposed tutorial is maps and related spatial representations. Making and interpreting maps and other spatial representations is central to most of the geoscience disciplines, yet it is a skill that a substantial minority of undergraduates struggles with. Most college professors have little or no professional training in how people learn or think, and they have little time or infrastructure for professional development as educators on the job. Cognitive and developmental researchers have extensively studied the cognitive processes that underlie the comprehension and generation of maps, but few of those insights have reached geoscience faculty. DLESE has the potential to help this situation by providing on-line professional development materials, designed for college faculty, focusing on specific problems or issues that arise commonly in teaching geoscience concepts and skills.