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Direct linkFitchett, Paul G.; Good, Amy J. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2012
The utilization of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and geobrowsers (Google Earth) have become increasingly prevalent in the study of genocide. These applications offer teachers and students the opportunity to analyze historical and contemporary genocidal acts from a critical geographic perspective in which the confluence of historical…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Death, Social Studies, Teaching Methods
Schwartz, Neil H.; Verdi, Michael P.; Morris, Terra D.; Lee, Tiffany R.; Larson, Nikki K. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2007
Fifty-five undergraduate students read pages on a website presenting text about familiar and unfamiliar geographic locations in the United States. Learners navigated the site by having available or unavailable navigational buttons showing the cardinal compass directions between the map locations in the presence or absence of a cartographic map…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Familiarity, Geographic Location, Mnemonics
Peer reviewedDuckson, Don W., Jr. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1988
Two samples (n=435 and 456) were drawn to represent changes between 1968 and 1986 in cartographic and cognitive map skills in college freshmen. Subjects from the second sample ranked the 48 contiguous states by residential preference. Results are discussed. (Author/MT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Freshmen, Geography, Higher Education
Clump, Michael A. – College Student Journal, 2005
Individuals' mental maps of the world are highly misrepresentative of the actual world. Availability in memory partly explains the reasons for this misrepresentation. When asked to place the 50 states in their correct locations, students have difficulty with states not in close proximity to their own because of availability, such that the…
Descriptors: Proximity, Misconceptions, Locational Skills (Social Studies), Memory
