Why Do Students Take Photographs on Geology Field Trips: Connections Between Motivations and Novelty Space

Kelsey Lynn Garner

2 citations0/0 files storedOhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Geography Education and Pedagogy Science Education and Pedagogy Geotourism and Geoheritage Conservation

Abstract

Field trips are a significant aspect to geology programs.Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH has a field program called GeoJourney.This program travels for nine weeks around the United States to teach undergraduate students introductory physical geology, historical geology, environmental studies, Native American studies, and critical thinking.To have a successful field trip Orion and Hofstein (1994) suggest that there are distracting factors called novelty space that should be addressed.Novelty space is comprised of three domains, geographic, psychological and cognitive novelty space.There is a fourth novelty space domain, social novelty space, which was created because of the nature of the field trip.Novelty space can be addressed while on a field trip, but if the instructors are unclear when a student was exhibiting high novelty space, then instructors cannot adjust their teachings to help the students.This study determined whether or not photographs could be a behavioral proxy for novelty space while on GeoJourney to help instructors adjust their teaching if necessary.This study was comprised of observations, interviews of the students that attended GeoJourney in fall 2007, the Novelty Space Survey (Elkins & Elkins, 2008), and a self-administered photo spreadsheet.The data from these sources were compared to determine if photographs could be a behavioral proxy for novelty space.The overall hypothesis was if the Novelty Space Survey results per novelty space domain decreased then photographs per novelty space domain should also decrease representing a decrease vi Lastly, I would like to acknowledge Dr. Joe Elkins for providing the idea for my thesis.In addition, if it wasn't for him, I would never have had the opportunity to travel nine weeks around the United States and meet some amazing individuals.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 2 citations exist upstream.

References

1994Factors that influence learning during a scientific field trip in a natural environment 1993A Model for the Development and Implementation of Field Trips as an Integral Part of the Science Curriculum 2004Using Visitor-Employed Photography to Investigate Destination Image 2005Assessment of Learning in Entry-Level Geoscience Courses: Results from the Geoscience Concept Inventory 1997Dimensions of photography in a nature-based tour 1978The novel field‐trip phenomenon: Adjustment to novel settings interferes with task learning 2007Teaching Geology in the Field: Significant Geoscience Concept Gains in Entirely Field-based Introductory Geology Courses 1989Development of a High-School Geology Course Based on Field Trips

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.