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)

Evaluation of Geography Instructor-Candidate’s Spatial Thinking Ability through Spatially Designed Field-Course

Authors
Zaid Ali Wardana, Sigit Santosa, Yasin Yusup
Corresponding Author
Zaid Ali Wardana
Available Online June 2019.
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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Volume Title
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)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-739-3
ISSN
2352-5398
Copyright
© 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/).

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