Purpose This paper's objective is to provide a systematic literature review of the contextual
factors affecting downward communication from supervisors to subordinates in the audit …

This paper reports on the development and assessment of the EarthSystemsVisualizer
(ESV), a geovisualization tool designed to facilitate learning about global weather. Our goals …

This study examined the effects of reference maps on what children remember from written
and aurally presented discourse. Subjects were presented one of three maps that varied in …

This study examined the effects of varying the familiarity and number of elements in maps
and diagrams, the way they were represented, and subjects' ability on recall of the locations …

This paper analyses the codification of a geographical map by different groups of subjects
induced to study the map in different ways through diverse instructions. These instructions …

Two experiments evaluated the effect of map feature content on recall of text auded by
subjects of varying reading skill levels. In Experiment 1, elementary students with below …

Two experiments tested the hypothesis that the cognitive representation of spatial relations
on a map is primarily a visually keyed process. In Experiment 1, undergraduates studied a …

As numerous surveys attest, place location learning among American school children is
inadequate using traditional instructional methods centered on passive map study. This …

In two experiments, college students studied a reference map that was varied in both grid
structure and the conceptual similarity of its features. In Experiment I, subjects who studied …

In this study, we examined the influence of graphic patterns and their interpretive context on
learning accompanying prose. Subjects examined a graphic figure identified as either a map …