Evaluating Disaster Instructional Material Questions in Geography Textbook: Using Taxonomy of Spatial Thinking to Support Disaster Preparedness

11th Aceh International Workshop and Expo on Sustainable Tsunami Disaster Recovery

Ridha, S.^1^2 ; S., Utaya ; S., Bachri ; B., Handoyo

Department of Geography Education, Postgraduate of State University of Malang, Jalan Semarang No. 5, Malang, Indonesia^1

Dept. of Geography Education Sekolah Tinggi Keguruan Dan Ilmu Pendidikan Al-Washliyah Banda Aceh, Jalan Al-washliyah No.1, Banda Aceh, Indonesia^2

Department of Geography Education, Faculty of Social Science, State University of Malang, Jalan Semarang No. 5, Malang, Indonesia^3

关键词: Disaster preparedness;    evaluating;    Instructional materials;    questions;    Spatial thinking;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/273/1/012035/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/273/1/012035

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This paper discusses whether instructional material questions about disaster in geography textbooks contain three components of spatial thinking, namely: 1) concepts of space, 2) tools of representation, and 3) processes of reasoning. The taxonomy of spatial thinking is used to evaluate the instructional material questions about disaster in geography textbook of senior high school in Indonesia. A survey was conducted to select geography textbooks that were most dominantly used in senior high school. Four geography textbooks with curriculum 2013 were chosen and evaluated. These textbooks are used as learning resources by majority of teachers and standardized by the National Education Standards Agency (BSNP).Then, the books were reviewed in instructional material questions about disaster and the questions were evaluated. Evaluation is done by coding technique using taxonomy of spatial thinking. The evaluation result showed that spatial concepts of instructional material questions about disaster were still classified as low, even 73 percent of questions was designed without using concepts of space (non-spatial). Besides, the majority of representation tools were not used. From 189 questions evaluated, only 27 questions or 14 percent used tools of representation. In addition, the majority of reasoning processes was at the average level (processing) or 47 percent. The processes of reasoning should be run with student's activities to obtain high level cognitive processes, for example by create maps and designing an area for disaster evacuation. In brief, from spatial perspective, this study revealed that instructional material questions about disaster in geography textbooks have not supported preparedness in facing disaster. Therefore, teachers and textbook writers need to develop instructional material questions about disaster from spatial perspective to support disaster preparedness.