Spatial Thinking Skills of High Senior School Geography Teachers in Surakarta City

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10.2991/assehr.k.220503.008How to use a DOI?

Keywords

geography teachers; high senior school; spatial thinking skills

Abstract

In the 21st century, geography teachers need critical thinking and technology skills to develop instructional materials and learning media. By using them in the learning process, the teachers will be easier to explain the materials to students. The objective of this study is to determine the level of spatial thinking ability of high senior school geography teachers in Surakarta city. The population comprised the teachers of 39 high schools. The samples amounted to 27 geography teachers of 20 high senior schools. It used a purposive random sampling technique. The technique of gathering data of spatial thinking skills employed the STAT test. The data analysis technique applied descriptive statistics. The research results indicate the level of the geography teachers’ spatial thinking ability to get an average of 62.33. The percentages at the moderate and high levels were 68% and 32%.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Devita Indraswari
AU  - Wahyu Widiyatmoko
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/05/14
TI  - Spatial Thinking Skills of High Senior School Geography Teachers in Surakarta City
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference of Learning on Advance Education (ICOLAE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 69
EP  - 75
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220503.008
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220503.008
ID  - Indraswari2022
ER  -