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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Map reading"”.
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Existing off the Map: Reading Stein and Barnes as Hybrid Architects
<p>Countless scholarly works have been devoted to the modernist movement and, more specifically, to Gertrude Stein's <i>The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas</i> and Djuna Barnes's <i>Nightwood</i>. The notion of hybridity, however, has remained largely absent from published works about these texts. …
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Understanding perception of different urban thermal model visualizations
… using color, although the choice of colormap varies widely. Previous cartographic research has demonstrated that colormap and other cartographic choices affect people's understanding. This research study examines the difference in map reading performance between satellite and drone-sourced …
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Relationships between map format and route selection: toward improving transit informational systems
… (1) to determine the effectiveness of various map formats in presenting mass transit information; and (2) to assess subjects’ internal representation of spatial features of the environment. It was hypothesized that bus route selection would be a function of both the amount of detail and the …
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The Impact Of Academic Optimism On Student Achievement In Five Middle Schools
… composite scores for the five levels of the MAP were obtained from school principals and distributed prior to administering the survey. Data was downloaded into a SPSS file for analysis. The analysis indicated faculty trust in parents and students was most often the statistically significant …
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Development and evaluation of a self-instruction method for analysing spatial information
… confirmed that a self-instruction programme for map reading (MapTrix, Innes, 2001) is effective. Using the test-intervention-test method, the importance of mathematics instruction for improving map analysis is recognised.
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Geo-Visualization Tools for Participatory Urban Planning - The Case of Tripoli, Lebanon
… technique employed coloured printed transparency maps of the present land-use and the 2000-2020 Master Plan, both geo-referenced to a mosaic of QuickBird satellite imagery used to assist the participant’s orientation. The second technique was the Lenticular Foil Display (LFD) using the so-called …
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The Impact Of Pre-Kindergarten Programs On Student Achievement In Mississippi Elementary Schools
… attendees and non-attendees using 2015-2016 MAP test data in reading and math. After conducting an independent samples t test, findings from this study suggested there is a significant difference between the MAP reading and math test scores of 2015-2016 third grade students in Mississippi …
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Reading, Travel, and the Pedagogy of Growing Up in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
… together the domestic world of young adult reading with the foreign world of international travel that informed German experience at the end of the nineteenth century. By uniting these two ostensibly disparate realms under one interpretive frame, I offer a new perspective on the theory and …
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Investigating stakeholder perceptions of out-of-field English and Geography teaching in selected secondary schools in the Western Cape
… curriculum, including specialised areas such as map reading, analysis, and interpretation. This thesis draws on Sen’s Capability Approach (CA) and related theories of teacher self-efficacy and well-being. It employs a qualitative methodology within the interpretivist research paradigm to focus on …
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Implementing The SIOP Model To Support English Language Learners
… of the SIOP Model. The increase in NWEA MAP reading scores over the course of a year suggests that using the SIOP Model had a positive impact on student learning. Thirty-nine percent of the respondents found that there were no barriers to implementing the SIOP Model, which suggests that …
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The use of 3D geovisualisations for urban design : the case of informal settlement upgrading in South Africa
… and urban design is required. Spatial data and maps are essential throughout the entire upgrading and urban design process in order to understand the current environment, plan new developments and communicate planned developments. All stakeholders need to understand maps to ensure active …
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Virtual reality-based investigation of four cognitive theories for navigation
… ability. Spatial ability has been linked to map reading performance. Issues addressed included display modalities and information processing codes. The effect of different display modalities on driver performance and workload was the first issue. The different display methods investigated …
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Application of fuzzy logic, GIS and remote sensing to the assessment of environmental factors for extensive brackishwater aquaculture in Indonesia
… sensing technology to generate more robust mapping protocols in aquaculture, compensating for the disadvantages of the Crisp method. Two models were developed in two different provinces in Indonesia to spatially assess soil and hydrological constraints on extensive brackishwater aquaculture. …
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Beyond the Bezel: Utilizing Multiple Monitor High-Resolution Displays for Viewing Geospatial Data
… are required to view the full details of a map or image and, because of the large sizes of typical database, usually only in small portions. Multiple monitor configurations provide an attainable, low cost way for individuals to create large, high-resolution desktop displays. This increased …
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A Neuropsychological Investigation of Cerebral Dominance and Dyslexia
… dyslexic subjects and thirty-five controls, reading at or above grade level, all aged 8-12, were selected from three area elementary schools. All subjects were administered the same three perfo~mance tasks. Task I was a visual-spatlal task employlng tachistoscopic presentation of data to one …
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An analytic model to predict detection threshold and performance data for misconvergence on a shadow-mask CRT
… However, the selected visual task (a short reading task with average reading time of 6.5 s) was not significantly affected by very large levels of misconvergence. Rather than conclude that the levels of misconvergence used in this research do not affect reading task performance, a more …
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IMAGINING SPACE: DEVELOPING A CRITICAL GEO-LITERACY WITH MAPS AS PRIMARY SOURCES IN HISTORY EDUCATION
Maps, while often regarded as accurate representations of places and spaces unseen in lived experience, are created with specific purposes that reflect and perpetuate particular epistemological and ontological conceptions about space and place. Using Foucault's conception of power-knowledge …
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High school pupils' attitudes towards mapwork on the Zambian Copperbelt
… dismal performance of High school pupils in the mapwork component of the Zambian School Certificate Geography paper 1 (2218/1). This problem was against the background of the paucity of knowledge in this area of Geography Education. The study sought to address the following research questionsr(i) …