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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
Christian, Caroline – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The Visual-Spatial Chemistry Specific (VSCS) assessment tool was developed to test students' visual-perceptual skills, which are required to form a mental image of an object. The VSCS was designed around the theoretical framework of Rochford and Archer that provides eight distinct and well-defined visual-perceptual skills with identified problems…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Factor Analysis, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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Klonoff, Harry – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Development, Elementary School Students, Factor Analysis
Olson, Arthur V.; Rosen, Carl L. – 1971
The technique of factor analysis was used to explore the structure of five batteries of readiness tests (Gates Reading Readiness Test, Developmental Tests of Visual Perception, Metropolitan Readiness Tests, Specially Constructed Readiness Test by Olson, and Wechsler Intelligence for Children) as predictor variables for the Stanford Achievement…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Associative Learning, Auditory Perception, Concept Formation