國中生野外使用地圖能力之研究

• Main Author: 黃惠鈴
• Other Authors: 陳哲銘
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63294552526683478288

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 地理學系在職進修碩士班 === 99 === The Nine-Year Integrated Curriculum aims at developing the basic ability that students can carry with. The practical geography education is to help students apply geographic knowledge to the life. Especially, the ability of using the map in the wild is one of the basic abilities that every student has to acquire. In the past studies, the paper-based tests were carried out to check if students had achieved the learning goals while the practical experiments were rare. The purpose of this study is to design a task-based experiment for students to experience. Therefore, the researcher can directly observe how students look for the way in the wild with the map, evaluate students’ ability, and provide an example for the future teaching. In this study, the quantitative analysis and the qualitative interview are adopted. The research method is participation observation. Through this study, the findings are listed in the following. First, although 80% of the participants complete every target for using the map, among the participants above, 20% of them cannot complete the targets by themselves without practical exercises. Second, for sexual differences, male participants use the map better than female participants. So, the practical teaching should be highlighted for the girls in order to improve their ability of using the map. Next, for the differences in spatial ability, the participants who have high spatial ability use the map better than those who have low spatial ability. At the same time, there is a clear difference in calculating the scale between the two groups above. Next, as for the aspect of geography grades, there is no clear relationship between the participants’ grades and all the targets for using the map. Moreover, the situation that students get lost during the task mainly result from the reasons such as the misunderstanding between the scale and the real distance, the low motive for considering a contour line and using a compass, and the lack of confidence. These problems make participants not be able to complete the task. Therefore, according to the results of the study, there is still a lack of the teaching and learning in using the map in Taiwan. The practical lessons and the problem-solving task should be involved in geography teaching. Besides, for the future geography lessons in junior high schools, the related studies such as the competence targets for using the map, the designing of evaluating students’ ability in using the map, and curriculum arrangements are suggested for the further discussion.