Arazi Çalışmalarının Coğrafya Öğretmeni Adaylarının Yeryüzü Şekillerini Kavrama ve Tasvir Etme Becerilerine Etkileri(The Effects of Field Surveys on The Skills of Teaching Candidates to Conceptualize and Depict Landforms)

Abstract

In the instruction of Geographic sciences, which are about the mutual interactions of the relationship between nature and people, the effects of scientific field surveys are quite high. There are mandatory or elective field survey courses in almost all Geography departments at institutions of higher education for Geography teaching candidates to gain physical geography issues in an academic sense. This research took place to study the effects of a Survey Course taught in the Gazi University Gazi Faculty of Education Department of Geography Education on the skills of teaching candidates to conceptualize, define, distinguish, and depict landforms. The research was conducted with a field survey performed in one day in the Ayaş-Güdül-Beypazarı route with 12 third-year undergraduate students who took the class Field Surveys taught in the 2018-2019 Spring semester. The research was completed with pre- and posttest applications in a single-group experimental design model. The questions prepared by the research team and shaped with expert views were used before the field survey. The research team personally administered the pre-test forms two weeks before the field survey to the test group, providing each teaching candidate a period of 30 minutes. Two weeks after completing the field survey on March 22, 2019, the research team again performed a post-test, providing the same amount of time. It is seen that the field surveys of the test group students who participated in the field survey created a meaningful influence over the development of the skills of conceptualizing and depicting landforms (Z=-2.941, p<0.05). Considering the rank average and rank sums of the different scores, it is seen that this observed difference favors positive ranks, meaning the posttest scores. It is recommended that studies similar to field surveys in institutions of higher education be included in secondary education geography courses and that the number of field survey courses in Geography education or departmental syllabi is increased.