Improving Geographic Literacy among First-Year Undergraduate Students: Testing the Effectiveness of Online Quizzes

Turner, Sally; Leydon, Joseph

doi:10.1080/00221341.2011.583263

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“…These results were very surprising as Moodle is equipped with many features to support students' participation/interaction, such as through interactive quizzes providing students with feedback after they finish them or through a live chat between students, which could allow them to share their thoughts, with the instructor observing and giving feedback. Both of these tools have been found to increase problem-solving and collaboration skills (Lazakidou & Retalis, 2010;Turner & Leydon, 2012) as well as critical thinking skills (Meredith, 2014). Moreover, it was also found that developing students' creativity through Moodle during the surveyed period was placed at the bottom of the ranking.…”

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Students’ Attitudes towards the Effectiveness of Moodle Platform at Preclinical-Medical Level in PBL Curriculum

Peerapolchaikul

Suealek

Rojpibulstit

2019

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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Moodle is applied as an online learning management system in the Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University (TU), where the curriculum has been based on problem-based learning (PBL) since 2015. Little research on the effectiveness of Moodle and students’ attitudes during their studies at the pre-clinical medical level within a PBL curriculum has been conducted. Hence, this cross-sectional study focuses on second- and the third-year (MD-2 and MD-3) preclinical medical students’ attitudes towards Moodle and its effectiveness in the PBL curriculum by using a 27-itemed self-constructed online questionnaire. Additionally, students’ preferences as regards the materials managed by the Moodle platform were also evaluated as students’ preferred behaving style (SPBS). After obtaining ethical approval from the Human Ethics Committee of TU No. 1 (Faculty of Medicine), the data was collected and analyzed by medians and inter-quartile ranges, Mann-Whitney U test, and Spearman correlation (ρ). After analyzing the data, the results indicated the following: (1) the top four attitudes scores, (2) the two lowest-attitude scores, (3) the top five effectiveness scores (Ef), (4) the three lowest effectiveness scores, and (5) the top three SPBS scores. Interestingly, a stronger positive Spearman’s correlation (ρ) between ‘Prefer doing quizzes in Moodle to in classroom’ and ‘Moodle enhances learning capability’ was found for MD-3 compared with MD-2. This study reports that Moodle is preferable as a platform supporting students’ self-learning within a PBL curriculum. However, to use the Moodle platform to the highest benefit, instructors need to upgrade its capabilities, especially in the area of student-teacher interaction and the enhancement of students’ critical thinking and creativity, as demonstrated by the lowest scores obtained in this study.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Students’ Attitudes towards the Effectiveness of Moodle Platform at Preclinical-Medical Level in PBL Curriculum

Peerapolchaikul

Suealek

Rojpibulstit

2019

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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“…This is supported by Nolan [46] whose test on physical and geopolitical geography administered to 321 adults, found that women, regardless of education level, scored significantly lower than men. Turner and Leydon [47] recommend using tests and other methods to develop strong geographic literacy skills needed to make sense of spatial data that has become so widely available and used today.…”

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Critical Review of Geographic Illiteracy in the United States: A Multifaceted Analysis

McFarlane

2024

JGEESI

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This paper explores the concept of geographic illiteracy in general, and specifically in the United States over the last several decades. The researcher sets out by placing geographic literacy concerns and challenges within the context of the broader literacy challenges raised in the United States in the last quarter of the previous century via the 1983 published landmark education report, A Nation At Risk. Geography illiteracy, also called ‘geo-illiteracy’ is demonstrated from reports and statistics comparing geographic achievements internationally among nations in certain cohorts, and the state of geographic education nationally, is examined. The importance of geography education-literacy is highlighted, and the researcher explores several authoritative sources including organizations, scholars, and writers on the subject, and then from an analysis of the extant literature, devises “Five Theses” as to the causes of geographic illiteracy (culture value thesis, curricular thesis, corporate-economic value thesis, and perceptions of geography thesis). The consequences of geographic illiteracy are then examined under “Five Themes” referred to as ‘challenges’ (environmental-sustainability challenge, economic challenge, national competitiveness challenge, threat to national security challenge, and well-being and happiness challenge). Finally, the researcher presents several recommendations for improving geographic literacy across the United States, noting that a public policy effort by the federal and state governments must ultimately be the most viable solution to improving the geographic knowledge and skills of American citizens.

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“…The analysis of geographical knowledge is a technique with a long tradition, pioneered in Anglophone research field in the 1980s and 1990s, which has continued to the present day. It has been defined as the ability to understand, process and utilize geographic data (Turner & Leydon, 2012). However, in its most complex iteration, it requires students to have a critical understanding of the tools and skills to address, from a geographical perspective, problems, e.g., the exploitation of natural resources or inequalities between nations (Memisoglu, 2017).…”

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Views of the islands: The geographical perception of the Balearic Islands among graduate students in primary education

Sebastián¹,

Garau²,

Ruiz³

2023

ISJ

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Geographic literacy is a field of research with a great tradition. This area was first developed in the British and North American academic circles in the 1980s and 1990s, and research has continued until the present day. The analysis of perception and knowledge of geography has focused on the enclaves (toponyms) mentioned in the mental maps (place location knowledge) prepared by university undergraduate students of the primary education teaching major. However, this focus is also on an approach where few studies have been made, yet it has been facilitated by the incorporation of modern geographic information technologies. The authors test a methodology for surface area and perimeter size analysis on the mental maps of the Balearic Islands made by future teachers, comparing their distortions in relation to the real model. After analyzing the results, the most notable common pattern describing the insular students’ perception of the isles is ethnocentrism, which undoubtedly has important implications in the field of geographic education.

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Improving Geographic Literacy among First-Year Undergraduate Students: Testing the Effectiveness of Online Quizzes

Cited by 20 publications

References 12 publications

Students’ Attitudes towards the Effectiveness of Moodle Platform at Preclinical-Medical Level in PBL Curriculum

Students’ Attitudes towards the Effectiveness of Moodle Platform at Preclinical-Medical Level in PBL Curriculum

Critical Review of Geographic Illiteracy in the United States: A Multifaceted Analysis

Views of the islands: The geographical perception of the Balearic Islands among graduate students in primary education

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