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Direct linkJankowska, Dorota M.; Gajda, Aleksandra; Karwowski, Maciej – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
This article explores how creative visual imagination and creative thinking can help children to construct mental models of space. A mixed-method study, integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches and involving 98 five-year-old children (54 girls and 44 boys) demonstrated that creative visual imagination, rather than creative thinking, is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Creative Thinking, Visual Learning
Download full textGörecek Baybars, Meryem; Kayabas, Büsra Tugçe – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2018
Teaching astronomy to young generations is of great importance because astronomy education helps us to better understand the world we are living in and to find answers to our questions. In this regard, the current study aimed to determine the secondary school 4th grade students' mental models of the astronomer. The current research is designed as…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Models, Case Studies, Secondary School Students
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
