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Peer reviewedRittschof, Kent A.; Kulhavy, Raymond W. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1998
To examine how four methods of symbolizing data affect learning from thematic maps of familiar regions, two experiments were conducted with college students. In both experiments, map-related text information was recalled more than map-unrelated text information. Choropleth maps and proportional symbol maps were associated with higher reported use…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Data Analysis, Higher Education
