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

Garner, Kelsey Lynn
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1211556530

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2008, Master of Science (MS), Bowling Green State University, Geology.
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 and 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 in novelty space. It was determined that photographs could be a proxy for geographic and cognitive novelty space, but not for psychological and social novelty space.
Sheila Roberts (Advisor)
Philip Xie (Advisor)
Margaret Yacobucci (Committee Member)
186 p.
Geology
Geology Field Trips; Novelty Space; GeoJourney; Photographs

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  • Garner, K. L. (2008). Why Do Students Take Photographs on Geology Field Trips: Connections Between Motivations and Novelty Space [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1211556530

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Garner, Kelsey. Why Do Students Take Photographs on Geology Field Trips: Connections Between Motivations and Novelty Space. 2008. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1211556530.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Garner, Kelsey. "Why Do Students Take Photographs on Geology Field Trips: Connections Between Motivations and Novelty Space." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1211556530

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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