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

【摘要】为什么有些学生对地图和空间表示有困难：地球科学教师在线教程本项目开发了一个在线互动教程，解决了地球科学教育者广泛关注的一个话题。本教程的主题是地图和相关的空间表示。绘制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，但这是一项相当少数本科生难以掌握的技能。大多数大学教授很少或根本没有接受过关于人们如何学习或思考的专业培训，而且他们几乎没有时间或基础设施作为在职教育者进行专业发展。认知和发展研究人员对地图理解和生成的认知过程进行了广泛的研究，但这些见解很少达到地球科学教师的水平。dese有潜力通过提供在线专业发展材料来帮助这种情况，这些材料是为大学教师设计的，重点是在教授地球科学概念和技能时经常出现的具体问题或问题。

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.