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Effects of Thinking Style and Spatial Ability on Anchoring Behavior in Geographic Information Systems
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Wang, Dai-Yi; Lee, Mei-Hsuan; Sun, Chuen-Tsai – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
The authors propose an instructional use for Google Earth (a GIS application) as an anchoring tool for knowledge integration. Google Earth can be used to support student explorations of world geography based on Wikipedia articles on earth science and history topics. We asked 66 Taiwanese high-school freshmen to make place marks with explanatory…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Geographic Information Systems, Foreign Countries, High School Freshmen