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Interest and Transformative Experience as Predictors of Geoscience Academic and Career Choice [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesRecruitment and retention of students in STEM fields continues to be a challenge. Existing models of recruitment and retention emphasize the role of domain interest and identity.
Amanda D. Manzanares, Kevin J. Pugh
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Three Horizons for Future Geoscience
Earth Science, Systems and Society, 2023 Geoscience, along with other scientific disciplines, is being increasingly challenged on how it can best confront key global challenges, such as climate change, food insecurity, biodiversity loss, human conflict and migration, and persistent poverty. But
Iain Stewart +4 more
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Journal of Educational Studies, 2023 Field studies have long been recognized as effective in geoscience education, demonstrating successful and proficient learning outcomes. Therefore, the significance of field engagement in geoscientific education cannot be overstated.
Izuchukwu Josephmartin Korie +4 more
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Pilot Study Using ArcGIS Online to Enhance Students’ Learning Experience in Fieldwork
Geosciences, 2021 Applying ArcGIS Online application to geological fieldwork provides an alternative way to teach students. This brief report describes an educational innovation for geological fieldwork with the ArcGIS Online application to examine students’ learning ...
Sumet Phantuwongraj +2 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 We present the result of a collaborative priority setting exercise to identify emerging issues and priorities in coastal geoscience and engineering (CGE).
Hannah E. Power +3 more
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Speaking for the Earth and Humans In the “Age of Consequences” [PDF]
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, 2020 The environmental humanities are suffused with a sense of urgency. As geoscientists sound the alarm about human treatment of the Earth, likewise environmental humanists seek to trigger the “conversation of humankind” that seems scarcely to be happening
Noel Castree
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Promoting Sketching in Introductory Geoscience Courses: CogSketch Geoscience Worksheets [PDF]
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2017 AbstractResearch from cognitive science and geoscience education has shown that sketching can improve spatial thinking skills and facilitate solving spatially complex problems. Yet sketching is rarely implemented in introductory geosciences courses, due to time needed to grade sketches and lack of materials that incorporate cognitive science research ...
Bridget, Garnier +5 more
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Journal of Educational Studies, 2022 Time and again, geoscience graduates are being churned out of Nigerian universities, yet when job vacancies present themselves, employers of labor still find it challenging to recruit Nigerian graduates because they are often found unemployable.
Chinazaekpere M. Arukwe +3 more
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Education Sciences, 2022 Many factors may contribute to women being underrepresented and marginalized in college-level geoscience majors. Limited research has examined students’ math anxiety as a possible factor.
Julie Sexton +3 more
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Fostering Progress in Children's Developing Geoscience Interests
Zeitschrift für Geographiedidaktik, 2007 Interest is a complex construct, yet is often treated by researchers and other authors as being a non-problematic uni-faceted concept. Negligible research has been undertaken into the geoscience interests of teachers and students, with even less probing
Roger Trend
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