Spatial Thinking of Senior High School Students：Content Analysis of Geography Subject Test in CEEC

• Main Authors: Shu-Wen Liao, 廖淑雯
• Other Authors: Jinn-Guey Lay
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61851458216602811052

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 地理環境資源學研究所 === 100 === GIS has been introduced to Senior High School Geography Curriculum Standard of Taiwan since 2006. As a brand-new technology in teaching and learning, GIS is expected to be a helpful tool to represent “virtual” space in geography course, which aims to enhance students’ ability to apply geographic information to solve real world problems. To achieve the goal, teachers tend to integrate GIS technology with public database and free software resources, such as Google Earth or Quantum GIS. This research contains two parts： First, we collect teacher’s opinions on GIS teaching by a nation-wide questionnaire survey. Secondly, we examine how the concept of spatial thinking was integrated in the geography test for College Entrance Examination during 2008-2010. The spatial thinking discussed here is based on Golledge’s theory that includes three cognitive skills： knowing concepts of space, using tools of representation, and reasoning processes”. For instance, the ability of drawing or reading maps reflects the skill of using tools of representation. This research discovers that most teachers introduce GIS technology and Google Earth in the first year course of senior high school geography. Upon this, students perform well in terms of spatial thinking.