Geography curricula objectives and students’ performance : enhancing the student’s higher-order thinking skills?
Virranmäki, Eerika; Valta-Hulkkonen, Kirsi; Pellikka, Anne (2021-02-12)
Eerika Virranmäki, Kirsi Valta-Hulkkonen & Anne Pellikka (2021) Geography Curricula Objectives and Students’ Performance: Enhancing the Student’s Higher-Order Thinking Skills?, Journal of Geography, DOI: 10.1080/00221341.2021.1877330
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Abstract
This paper centers on to evaluate whether and to what extent the learning objectives of the geography curricula emphasize students’ higher-order thinking skills (HOTS), and whether students are capable of answering to HOTS-questions by using the Finnish upper secondary geography education as an example. The revised Bloom’s taxonomy was used as a framework for the content analysis. The findings show that geography has the potential to enhance students’ HOTS, but students experience difficulties when answering to HOTS-questions. The results could be used to evaluate the desired thinking skills and knowledge dimensions in geography education for to enhance students meaningful learning.
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