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Diagram Affordances And Their Impact On Students’ Answers About Rivers And Groundwater, Daniel R. Curtis
Diagram Affordances And Their Impact On Students’ Answers About Rivers And Groundwater, Daniel R. Curtis
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
Diagrams are important tools for conveying information in geoscience education. Choosing what imagery to use and assessing its effectiveness is not straightforward. A diagram needs sufficient affordances (i.e., details, dimension) for the viewers to comprehend the intended message without adding too many details that will confuse and distract the viewer. Prior research suggests that the viewer’s knowledge and experience impact how diagram affordances are interpreted. Understanding this interaction between knowledge, context, and diagram affordance is critical for education and assessment.To investigate how changes in affordances affect student interpretation of images, we surveyed undergraduate students (N = 201) in introductory Earth …
It's More Than What You Know: Conceptual Understanding And Spatial Skill Impact Student Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation Skill, Bailey Zo Kreager
It's More Than What You Know: Conceptual Understanding And Spatial Skill Impact Student Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation Skill, Bailey Zo Kreager
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
Sequence stratigraphic interpretation and 3-D spatial and spatiotemporal skills are considered important for the petroleum industry. Despite the importance of sequence stratigraphic interpretations for student careers, students struggle to understand basic concepts such as eustasy, relative sea-level and base-level. However, little is known about the relationship between spatial skill and sequence stratigraphy or the impact of instruction on sequence stratigraphic diagrams. This study begins to fill this gap by testing 1) whether spatial skills predict success on a sequence stratigraphic interpretation task, 2) the impact of Wheeler diagram instruction on student sequence stratigraphic interpretation skill, and 3) the impact of …