Enhancement of Student Values, Interests and Attitudes in Earth Science Through a Field-Oriented Approach

A low motivational climate is characteristic of many introductory, general-education science courses at the university level. It has been well established that student motivation in a learning experience is, in large part, determined by the affective responses of the students to that experience. To measure the effect of field activities on the affective responses of students in this study, very different approaches were used by the same...