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Thinking and Practicing Like a Scientist?: Examining K-12 Student Mental Images of Scientists through a Large-Scale Survey-Based Study
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Zhang, Zhengyan; Chen, Ying-Chih; He, Guangxi; She, Hsiao-Ching; Chen, Jhih-Cheng – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2023
This study aimed to develop a valid and reliable instrument, the Mental Images of Scientists Questionnaire (MISQ), and use the instrument to examine Chinese students' mental images of scientists' characters across school levels, regions, living settings, and gender. The final version of the MISQ consisted of four constructs: scientists' cognitive,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, Visualization
Exploring Verbal, Visual and Schematic Learners' Static and Dynamic Mental Images of Scientific Species and Processes in Relation to Their Spatial Ability
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Al-Balushi, Sulaiman M.; Coll, Richard Kevin – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
The current study compared different learners' static and dynamic mental images of unseen scientific species and processes in relation to their spatial ability. Learners were classified into verbal, visual and schematic. Dynamic images were classified into: appearing/disappearing, linear-movement, and rotation. Two types of scientific entities and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Visualization, Spatial Ability, Grade 9