Transcript Advancing GIS Education Research

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Thomas R. Baker, Ph.D.
ESRI Education Team
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What is GIS Education Research?
• A focus on learning with spatial data, spatial
analysis methods, and GIS tools.
• Student attitude and achievement.
• Teacher training and professional development
•UI and Interaction development
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The community:
• About 40 researchers from academia, industry,
and private organizations. Group is open but
meetings are by invitation.
• Focused on better understanding GIS and
geotechnologies in education.
• Applications of geotechnologies to student
learning, include spatial thinking.
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Projects:
• A Call To Action Papers – to recruit
• Publication pathways for publishing new, original
research and meta-analyses
• Professional development opportunities for
participating researchers
Baker, Kerksi, Palmer
Forthcoming - NGCE Journal of Geography
•A 2004 online survey of K-12 educators who
attended GIS training
•Self-reported (n=186) data suggest a few modest,
yet significant changes in assessment and
instructional patterns.
•Barriers to GIS implementation are still present: time
for teachers, variable student skills, and software
complexity.
•And much more….
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Join us online at:
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Also see
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