The Journal of The Korean Association of Geographic and Environmental EducationISSN:1226-511X(Print) 2586-5641(Online)한국지리환경교육학회

This study compares and examines the characteristics of geographical assessment of four South Asian countries: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Their geographical assessment is divided into two domains, physical geography and human geography, in terms of form, and each domain takes a test system that is subdivided into several sub-sections. There is a higher proportion of the supply type than the multiple-choice type. The items have in common that they are a set-type item format composed of several sub-problems. Accordingly, in terms of content, it is a systematic theme center of physical geography and human geography, and has a common point in that the two areas occupy almost equal weight. However, India and Sri Lanka are relatively differentiated in that they place importance on understanding their own geography, Pakistan on physical geography and world geography, and Bangladesh on understanding geography methodology. And all of them are intended to evaluate various levels of geographical thinking on geographical ideas and phenomena, but they have shown in common that they mainly focus on retaining or applying prior knowledges rather than geographical inquiries. However, relatively, Bangladesh tends to evaluate different levels of geographical thinking skills, and Pakistan tends to evaluate the reproducibility of relatively simple knowledge of geographical facts. Overall geographical evaluation of Sri Lanka and India was ahead of Bangladesh and Pakistan in terms of quality and quantity. In particular, the blank map-based questions of Sri Lanka and India were noted in that they were faithful to the basics of geography learning such as location and distribution.