Over 600 geography teachers answered an online survey containing 30 questions about school world atlases, an integral part of geography education. The study measured the importance and frequency of use of atlases, identified the most frequently used school atlases, and determined the type of tasks solved with atlases and the supplementary teaching aids used. The authors analysed the individual responses of teachers and investigated the relationships between the various responses. To maximise the survey’s information value, many of the questions were open-ended, and teachers responded in the form of plain text. To extract information from these answers, linguistics methods were used. Teachers assessed the importance of atlases as essential. Over 90% of them used atlases in either every lesson or every second lesson. The most important factor in the use of atlases was the experience of the teachers. Those with longer praxis used atlases more often than less experienced teachers. Teachers considered thematic maps as the most problematic part of the atlases. The most frequently solved tasks were the simplest, such as identifying objects on a map. The findings of the survey quantified the importance of atlases in geography education and can assist geography teachers, atlas publishers, and cartographers in general.

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捷克地理教师认为学校世界地图集的重要性

超过 600 名地理教师回答了一项在线调查，其中包含 30 个问题关于学校世界地图集，这是地理教育的一个组成部分。该研究衡量了地图集使用的重要性和频率，确定了最常用的学校地图集，并确定了使用地图集解决的任务类型和使用的辅助教具。作者分析了教师的个人反应并调查了各种反应之间的关系。为了最大限度地提高调查的信息价值，许多问题都是开放式的，教师以纯文本的形式回答。为了从这些答案中提取信息，使用了语言学方法。教师将地图集的重要性评估为必不可少的。超过 90% 的学生在每节课或每节课中使用地图集。使用地图集的最重要因素是教师的经验。那些实践时间较长的人比经验不足的教师更频繁地使用地图集。教师们认为专题地图是地图册中最有问题的部分。最常解决的任务是最简单的，例如识别地图上的对象。调查结果量化了地图集在地理教育中的重要性，并且可以帮助地理教师、地图集出版商和一般的制图师。