ERIC Number: EJ1395759
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 24
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ISSN: ISSN-0309-8265
EISSN: EISSN-1466-1845
Engaging Geography Students through Innovation in Statistics Teaching
Journal of Geography in Higher Education, v47 n4 p613-636 2023
Geography undergraduate students have broad academic backgrounds; consequently, teaching statistics can be especially challenging. Unfortunately, there is a lack of up-to-date and geography-specific literature on the pedagogies of statistics instruction on an undergraduate geography degree course. In this paper we detail, discuss, and reflect on a range of innovative attempts to improve engagement and attainment. Many of the examples revolve around technological platforms to enhance student engagement, but also to improve and simplify module management, an under-valued part of delivering a team-taught module. We discuss a variety of quizzing platforms as effective ways of engaging students with content, but, also, as a method of scaffolding teaching, whereby student comprehension is gauged, and content is adapted on-the-fly. We also highlight that use of frequent formative quizzing can increase module engagement through a substantive increase in attendance in an era of lecture recording. We also reflect on differences in engagement pre-and-post pandemic. Overall, we highlight the benefit of incorporating technology into teaching geographical statistics, but caution that this must be on a case-by-case basis and should be used for clear pedagogical reasons.
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Geography Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Statistics Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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