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Dwi Angga Oktavianto; Sugeng Utaya; Sumarmi; Didik Taryana – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2024
Fieldwork is an important part of geography education in many countries. However, little fieldwork-related activities are being observed in Indonesia, specifically at the senior secondary level. In an effort to address this issue, investigators have developed a fieldwork-based blended learning model to be used in the country. This study involved…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Blended Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Marioara Pascu – Cogent Education, 2024
This study explored the relationship between students' learning styles and their learning process through Kahoot in developing competencies within a target group of 89 high school students from Technical College "Dimitrie Ghika", Romania. Initially, the students' learning styles were identified using Reid's VAK model. As a second step,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Learning Management Systems, Geography Instruction, Experiential Learning
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Chunyu Ma; Xiaoxu Lu – Journal of Geography, 2024
Thinking about the interactions among geographical elements, referred to here as geographical interrelationships thinking, is a crucial part of geographical synthetic thinking. Causal diagrams are commonly employed in geography to cultivate students' geographical synthetic thinking. To test the hypothesis that teaching with geographical causal…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Correlation, Thinking Skills
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Opoku, Foster – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2021
Although, a number of studies exists regarding students' experiences of Geography as a school subject, the gender differences in students' geographical knowledge and interests are rarely recognised. Drawing from the cognitive interest theory, and using a qualitative phenomenological design, this study explored the gender differences in the…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Geographic Concepts
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Sanli, Cennet – Participatory Educational Research, 2021
Areas where people utilize exams increase day by day. Learners intensively make an effort to achieve high scores and this process causes them to experience high levels of stress and pressure. The present study explored the moderating effect of self-efficacy beliefs in the relationship between task value and test anxiety. The research was conducted…
Descriptors: Value Judgment, Task Analysis, Test Anxiety, Stress Variables
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Aliman, Muhammad; Budijanto; Sumarmi; Astina, I. Komang; Putri, Rozana Eka; Arif, Muhammad – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2019
Geography learning is meaningless if it is not followed by the development of students' spatial thinking ability. Research aimed to 1) determine the effect of earthcomm learning and conventional learning on geography learning outcomes, 2) find out the effect of spatial thinking ability on geography learning outcomes, 3) find out the interaction…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Spatial Ability, Thinking Skills, Outcomes of Education
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Mekota, Tomáš; Marada, Miroslav – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
Digital technologies are essential for almost all human activities, so children should learn to work with them at schools. Some studies of the effect of using computers, tablets or cell phones at schools have been carried out, but in Czechia, where the research was conducted, the number of such studies is very low. We wanted to examine how tablets…
Descriptors: High School Students, Teaching Methods, Computer Uses in Education, Handheld Devices
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Xuan, Xiaowei; Jin, Qingna; Jo, Injeong; Duan, Yushan; Kim, Mijung – Journal of Geography, 2019
Few studies, if any, have systematically investigated the connection or relationship between geography curriculum and scientific literacy. With this realization, in this article, we examined the potential contribution of geography curriculum to developing students' scientific literacy, with China's middle-school geography curriculum as an example.…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Scientific Literacy, Foreign Countries
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Cox, Marjolein; Elen, Jan; Steegen, An – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2019
An increasing interconnectedness of people and goods enhances the complexity of many geographical problems. For students to understand geography, systems thinking is a promising approach. It helps to understand increasing complexity by looking at the entire system and at the interconnectedness between the elements in the system. In order to…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, High School Students, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Martins, Bruno; Nunes, Adélia; Lourenço, Luciano – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2019
This study aims to assess the perception that 9th year students have about some key concepts related to the "science of risk" and to evaluate their ability to identify and classify the natural and mixed risks with a greater probability of occurrence, both at national level and in the Metropolitan Area of Porto (MAP). A questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mass Media, Risk, Proximity
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Ahmad Yani; Asep Mulyadi; Mamat Ruhimat – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2018
This research attempted to find whether spatial intelligence (without context) has a correlation to (contextual) spatial ability and affects geographic skills as crystallized ability (Gc). It employed the descriptive method with subjects including students at the primary, junior high, and senior high schools. The data were collected through two…
Descriptors: Correlation, Spatial Ability, Skill Development, Career Development
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Metoyer, Sandra; Bednarz, Robert – Journal of Geography, 2017
This article provides a description and discussion of an exploratory research study that examined the effects of using geospatial technology (GST) on high school students' spatial skills and spatial-relations content knowledge. It presents results that support the use of GST to teach spatially dependent content. It also provides indication of an…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Geographic Information Systems
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Dikmenli, Yurdal; Çifçi, Taner – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This study scrutinizes geography teachers' attitude and belief levels regarding classroom management. As a matter of fact, classroom management is one of the prominent areas emphasized by all educators. Descriptive correlational survey model was used in the study. Study group includes 58 geography teachers working in Sivas province during the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Science Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Purcell, Jane – Geography Teacher, 2014
Many teachers struggle with helping their students simultaneously comprehend and retain the information that they read. These classroom educators have students take notes (copious amounts of notes) that neither produces the intended learning effect nor actively engages the student in the learning process. One way to increase retention is through…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Human Geography, Geography Instruction, Advanced Placement
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Torbjörnsson, Tomas; Molin, Lena – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2014
In this article we explore students' attitudes towards solidarity, as an aspect of sustainable development (SD), and analyse how students can be described as solidary. Our motive is to obtain better knowledge regarding important preconditions for education for SD. We conducted a quantitative study with 782 responding upper secondary students from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Sustainable Development, Group Unity
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