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Oliver-Hoyo, Maria; Sloan, Caroline – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
The development of the Visual-Perceptual Chemistry Specific (VPCS) assessment tool is based on items that align to eight visual-perceptual skills considered as needed by chemistry students. This tool includes a comprehensive range of visual operations and presents items within a chemistry context without requiring content knowledge to solve…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Visual Perception, Perceptual Development, Chemistry
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Roth, Wolff-Michael; Milkent, Marlene M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1991
Examines the relationships between the development of proportional reasoning strategies and three cognitive variables from Pascual-Leone's and Case's neo-Piagetian theories: (1) degree of field independence; (2) M-space; and (3) short-term storage space. Describes the ability of students to transfer problem-solving schemata to new contexts as well…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Computer Uses in Education, Decision Making