The Impact of Map Type on the Level of Student Map Skills

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cart.53.3.2017-0014" target="_blank" >https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cart.53.3.2017-0014</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cart.53.3.2017-0014" target="_blank" >10.3138/cart.53.3.2017-0014</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Impact of Map Type on the Level of Student Map Skills

Original language description

Thematic maps are becoming increasingly important in the current information age, and therefore they have become partnof the everyday life of the wider public. Given the number of mapping methods used in thematic cartography, the questionnarises of what extent the utilized method influences a user&apos;s map use level. For this reason, research has been undertaken with 392 students in the 17-20 age group with the aim of identifying and clarifying the influence of the mapping methods used (specifically choropleth mapping, diagram mapping, qualitative and quantitative line symbols, and area shading). The results have shown that the students were less successful with maps that used quantitative mapping methods than with maps using qualitative or both qualitative and quantitative mapping methods. The differences were most significant in the case of the cognitively demanding map interpretation skill, especially due to the students&apos; problematic understanding of the very essence of the quantitative methods. The different natures of the tested mapping methods also probably accounted for the identification of various factors explaining the differences in the levels of the work with the given thematic maps among the individual tested students.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-17749S" target="_blank" >GA16-17749S: Factors influencing map skills development in Czech schools</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Cartographica

ISSN

0317-7173

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

53

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CA - CANADA

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

149-170

UT code for WoS article

000449098400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85055204238