Effectiveness of an interactive map display in tutoring geography

Evaluated the teaching effectiveness of different aspects of the SCHOLAR computer-assisted instruction system. The experiment compared how well students learn using SCHOLAR with (a) the interactive map display of Map-SCHOLAR, (b) a static labeled map, and (c) an unlabeled map. The 9 high school and 9 college student Ss learned significantly more with the interactive map display than with either the labeled map or the unlabeled map. A new method called backtrace analysis was used to assess the effectiveness of specific aspects of the tutoring strategy and the map system used in the experiment.