Abstract Marsh et al.’s tests of appropriate spatial relationship concepts were administered to groups of college students to determine whether learning GIS enhances students’ overall ability to generate and recognize fundamental spatial relationship concepts. 119 undergraduate students enrolled in various GIS courses and in non-GIS courses participated in the study. We found that learning GIS helps enhance students’ ability to generate and recognize some spatial concepts, those explicitly learned in relation to the tools and functions of GIS software. The result indicates that students’ understanding of many of the spatial relationship concepts are acquired incidentally rather than explicitly or intentionally.

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学习GIS对空间概念理解的影响

摘要 Marsh 等人对大学生群体进行了适当空间关系概念的测试，以确定学习GIS 是否能提高学生生成和识别基本空间关系概念的整体能力。119 名就读各种 GIS 课程和非 GIS 课程的本科生参与了研究。我们发现学习 GIS 有助于提高学生生成和识别一些空间概念的能力，这些概念是与 GIS 软件的工具和功能相关的明确学习的。结果表明，学生对许多空间关系概念的理解是偶然获得的，而不是明确或有意获得的。