Keberkesanan GIS sebagai alat bantu mengajar konsep asas geografi kepada pelajar bukan-geografi (Effectiveness of GIS as a tool in teaching basic geographic concepts to non-geography students)

Mokhtar Jaafar

Abstract


Sistem Maklumat Geografi sering dikatakan sebagai alat bantu mengajar yang berkesan dalam mempertingkatkan kefahaman geografi di kalangan pelajar. Sehubungan itu kajian telah dilakukan bagi membuktikan premis tersebut dalam kalangan pelajar Sains Laut di UKM. Dua peringkat ujian dilakukan kepada 32 responden bagi menilai tahap kefahaman asas geografi mereka iaitu pada peringkat awal dan akhir perkuliahan dan aktiviti GIS. Secara umumnya, tahap kefahaman asas geografi responden pada peringkat awal adalah rendah. Responden gagal menyatakan istilah penting geografi seperti konsep ruang, tempat dan masa. Namun begitu, hasil kajian pada peringkat kedua membuktikan keberkesanan GIS dalam mempertingkatkan tahap kefahaman asas geografi dalam kalangan responden. Semua responden dapat mengemukakan kata kunci penting mengenai geografi dan berjaya menghubungkaitkan teknologi GIS dengan asas-asas geografi seperti data ruang, dimensi ruang, lokasi, entiti dan atribut. Kajian ini membuktikan keberkesanan GIS sebagai alat bantu mengajar konsep asas geografi yang sesuai terutama kepada pelajar yang tidak mempunyai asas geografi yang kukuh.

Katakunci: alat bantu mengajar, GIS, Geografi, pelajar, Sains Laut, Sistem Maklumat Geografi

Geographical Information Systems has always being said as an effective teaching tool in enhancing students understanding of geography. Therefore a study was conducted to demonstrate that premise among Marine Science students in UKM. Two stages of test were conducted to 32 respondents to evaluate their level of basic geographic understanding at the beginning and the end of their GIS lectures and GIS activities. In general, the level of basic geographic understanding among respondents at the early stage is weak. Respondents failed to state-out important geographic terms such as spatial, place and time concepts. However, the finding at the second stage proved that GIS effectively improving the level of basic geographic understanding among respondents. All respondents can demonstrate important geographic key words and succesfully relating GIS technology with geographic concepts such as spatial data, spatial dimension, location, entity and attributes. This study proved the effectiveness of GIS as a suitable teaching tools of basic geographic concepts especially to those their understanding of basic geographic is weak.

Keywords: geography, Geographical Information Systems, GIS, marine science, student, teaching tool

 

 


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