| Summary: | 碩士 === 佛光大學 === 產品與媒體設計學系 === 103 === In addition to being a center for study and student activities, the school campus can also be considered an important teaching aid for spatial reasoning. This thesis examined the effect of different kinds of maps on elementary school students’ success in finding the correct route to school as a measure of spatial reasoning ability. First, 108 sixth grade students were divided into groups for innate high and low spatial reasoning skills to control for pre-existing differences. Of these students, forty were selected to participate in the study. Overall, five students of each gender from both high and low spatial reasoning groups were given either a 2D or 3D map of the route to school to form four experimental groups: high skill level with a 2D map, low skill level with a 2D map, high skill level with a 3D map, and low skill level with a 3D map. The effect of each kind of map on spatial reasoning was measured by comparing the amount of time taken and total distance traveled for each experimental group to arrive at school. As previous studies have indicated, gender and innate spatial reasoning level both had statistically significant effects on time taken and distance traveled, with the male and innate high spatial reasoning skill groups outperforming the female and low spatial reasoning skill groups respectively. Interestingly, groups with 3D maps also had statistically significant (p < 0.05) shorter times and distances than groups with 2D maps after controlling for gender and innate spatial reasoning level. Finally, our results suggest that 3D maps are a more effective spatial reasoning tool for young children than their 2D counterparts.
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