Evaluation of Geography Instructor-Candidate’s Spatial Thinking Ability through Spatially Designed Field-Course
- Keywords
- Spatial Thinking, Spatial Thinking Dimension, Spatially Course, STAT Instrument, GIS.
- Abstract
Indonesian national curriculum (K-13) particularly geography’s syllabi for X, XI, and XII grade students was created with strongly contain of spatial thinking. K-13 represents how geography education world should be, it was briefly underlined a point view of geography. Moreover, it is also consisting of spatial thinking dimensions as its main frame. The aim of this research is to investigate two spatial thinking aspects among second year student who are also a geography teacher-candidates based on several variables such as field-course experience, and several course achievements. Spatial thinking ability assessed by researcher used STAT Instrument. The result depicts unusual pattern that there is no significantly statistic different between STAT score towards course achievements. In conclusion, it is extremely important to emphasizing spatial thinking ability for geography teacher-candidates in order to prepare their pedagogical competency.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Zaid Ali Wardana AU - Sigit Santosa AU - Yasin Yusup PY - 2019/06 DA - 2019/06 TI - Evaluation of Geography Instructor-Candidate’s Spatial Thinking Ability through Spatially Designed Field-Course BT - Joint proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science and Character Educations (IcoSSCE 2018) and International Conference on Social Studies, Moral, and Character Education (ICSMC 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 120 EP - 126 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125909985 ID - Wardana2019/06 ER -