The Investigation Of Attitudes Towards Geography Lesson Of University Students With Cluster Analysis

Abstract

One of the basic aims of Geography education are to recognize physical and human environment to take benefit from natural environment in a maximum size and to solve various kinds of problems with the help of geographical statistics. Because education is an important devise in changing attitudes, it's important for the teachers to know the students attitudes towards their lesson and now they can measure and evaluate these to increase the quality of education. This study investigates the primary school students teachers tendency clustering attitudes towards geography lesson. This research has covered 314 (94 female, 220 male) student of primary school social and primary school student teachers in the department of education in Education Faculty, Siirt University. Ward's method of hierarchical clustering with square Euclidean distances was used to analyses data. The z-scores was used to standardize of the data. The aim of this method is to group either the data or the variables into clusters such that the elements within a cluster have a high degree of natural association among themselves while clusters are relatively distinct from one another. In our study we determined in three main cluster like A, B and C to university students attitudes towards geography lesson.