Table 5 Scores for the application of teachers’ geographic subject mind maps teaching.

From: Fostering students’ geographical synthetic thinking using geographic subject mind maps

Teacher and Class

Overall

T01

T02

T03

T04

T05

T06

T07

T08

Total use of mind maps in experimental class

54

12

12

5

5

4

5

5

6

Total experimental class hours

38

4

5

5

5

4

5

5

5

A1 Score of GST dimension frequency

2.82

3.54

3.33

2.67

2.50

2.50

1.67

2.83

3.83

A2 Score of GST dimension coverage

4.48

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

4.17

2.50

4.17

5.00

A3 Score of GST dimension target implementation

4.13

5.00

5.00

3.80

3.67

4.19

2.92

4.00

4.43

B1 Introduction to the drawing standard of GSMM

3.75

5.00

5.00

5.00

0

0

5.00

5.00

5.00

B2 Analysis of problems based on GSMM

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

B3 Guiding students to draw GSMM

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

B4 Showing the teacher’s own GSMM to students

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

B5 Guiding students to revise and perfect their GSMM

4.38

0

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

A Involvement of GST dimension

4.07

4.72

4.68

4.23

4.17

3.86

2.45

3.87

4.63

B Standard application of GSMM

4.72

4.25

5.00

5.00

4.25

4.25

5.00

5.00

5.00

Level of GSMM teaching application

4.30

4.56

4.79

4.50

4.19

3.99

3.35

4.26

4.76

Number of student samples

267

41

47

38

30

29

29

19

34

Pretest of GST

Mean

64.87

61.22

63.94

54.47

66.75

69.74

72.76

70.96

66.25

SD

10.64

10.64

10.36

11.17

8.06

8.42

8.46

6.02

6.55

Posttest of GST

Mean

75.38

68.82

75.46

75.33

76.83

78.48

72.27

78.16

80.42

SD

10.01

9.24

8.08

12.10

10.67

9.05

10.10

7.30

7.85

Improvement score

10.51***

7.60***

11.52***

20.86***

10.08***

8.74**

−0.49

7.20**

14.17***

Standard deviation

11.27

9.33

8.63

13.01

9.32

12.07

8.17

7.57

8.48

Increase ratio

16.20%

12.41%

18.02%

38.30%

15.10%

12.53%

−0.67%

10.15%

21.39%

Significance (two-tailed)

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.001

0.75

0.001

0.000

  1. Note: Both pretest and posttest scores are on a 100-point scale (same below). The pretest and posttest differences in the geographical synthetic thinking level for all eight class sections and the overall sample were tested for a normal distribution. Through the P-value of the W-test and tools such as histograms, the differences all follow a normal or approximately normal distribution, meeting the requirements for using paired sample T-tests.
  2. **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001.