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Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-7-17-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-7-17-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
Research article
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30 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 30 Jan 2024

The Rock Garden: a preliminary assessment of how campus-based field skills training impacts student confidence in real-world fieldwork

Thomas W. Wong Hearing, Stijn Dewaele, Stijn Albers, Julie De Weirdt, and Marc De Batist

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Field skills training is an integral part of geoscience education, but long field courses away from home can be barriers to accessing that education and mean that students do not get regular field skills practice. We built the Rock Garden, an on-campus field course at Ghent University, Belgium, to make our field skills training more accessible. Here, we present preliminary data that suggest on-campus field skills training provision can increase students' confidence during real-world fieldwork.
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