Geographic Affiliation and Sense of Place: Influences on Incoming Online Students' Geological and Meteorological Content Knowledge | NSTA

Geographic Affiliation and Sense of Place: Influences on Incoming Online Students' Geological and Meteorological Content Knowledge

Journal of College Science Teaching— September/October 2015

Knowing an individual’s geographic affiliation may be useful in evaluating a student’s previous knowledge. To test this hypothesis, students in an online master’s program were given presurveys to evaluate their previous knowledge in meteorology and geology, as well as geological and meteorological sense-of-place surveys.

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