Developing Students’ Competence To Analyse Landscapes During Geography University Studies
Abstract
The focus on developing students’ competences underlines the importance of creating learning situations that enable students improve their knowledge and skills. Assessment is a crucial stage in giving feedback on students’ performance. In the context of an increasing number of studies on developing and assessing university students’ competences, we present a good practice example from the Faculty of Geography of Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The topic of analysing landscapes is both challenging and rewarding for students due to the complexity of the knowledge and skills it involves. Our study on a series of students’ projects (on both urban and rural landscapes) assesses these students’ competence level, while proposing improvement measures. We took into account professors’ requests (about editing, the quality of the theoretical background, the criteria related to the quality of explanation and argumentation, correctness of results, originality, value of the applicative part, observing the structure and contents of the project, etc.) and a series of specific criteria for landscape research. For the latter, we analysed and assessed the following for the students’ projects: cartographic and photographic materials on landscapes and explanations associated to these, identified vulnerabilities and imbalances of the landscapes in the research areas, proposals for landscape reconstruction and their spatial and functional re-integration.
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Publication Date
25 June 2019
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978-1-80296-062-4
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Future Academy
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63
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1st Edition
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1-613
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Teacher, teacher training, teaching skills, teaching techniques, special education, children with special needs
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Ilovan, O., Dulamă, M. E., Andron, D., Bălan, P., Muntean, D., Toderaș, A., & Ciocan, M. (2019). Developing Students’ Competence To Analyse Landscapes During Geography University Studies. In V. Chis, & I. Albulescu (Eds.), Education, Reflection, Development – ERD 2018, vol 63. European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences (pp. 398-408). Future Academy. https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.06.49