Geography literacy can develop Geography skills for high school students: is it true?

Autor: Sumarmi, Wiwik Sri Utami, Ita Mardiani Zain
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 296:012032
ISSN: 1757-899X
1757-8981
Popis: The most important issue related to education in Indonesia is the low quality of student learning and competence. The basic thing that is important to be studied is the demands of 21st-century skills that are difficult to fulfil with the low competence of student learning. Low competence of student learning demonstrated by low capacity of scientific literacy includes geography literacy. Geography skills of Indonesian students are also low. It is shown from the students' ability to use maps to describe and to analyze is low. The purpose of this study is to determine the correlation between the literacy skills of geography to develop geography skills of high school students in Surabaya. Written and performance tests were given to the sample of 29 high school students. The results of the tests we analyzed based on Geography literacy and its correlation to Geography skills in terms of the ability to use the media, map, and analyze the phenomenon of the geosphere. The results showed that the students who have low literacy geography have difficulty in using map.
Databáze: OpenAIRE