Students' Visual Learning Disabilities and Under-Achievement in Selected Science Subjects.

Autor/in	Rochford, Kevin
Titel	Students' Visual Learning Disabilities and Under-Achievement in Selected Science Subjects.
Quelle	(1987), (54 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Chemistry; College Students; Diagnostic Tests; Higher Education; Learning Disabilities; Learning Problems; Molecular Structure; Perceptual Handicaps; Pictorial Stimuli; Spatial Ability; Underachievement; Visual Measures; Visual Perception + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Chemie; Collegestudent; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Learning handicap; Lernbehinderung; Lernproblem; Perceptual impairments; Wahrnehmungsstörung; Fantasieanregung; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Performance deficiency; Leistungsschwäche; Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Abstract	Two experiments were conducted to assess the performance of freshmen chemistry students with poor spatial visualization skills. In the first experiment, 31 chemistry students with academically deficient backgrounds completed a diagnostic test of their ability to visualize and interpret pictorial representations of simple molecular structures. At the end of their first semester of chemistry in a special academic support program, it was found that the 19 chemistry students who had failed the diagnostic test underachieved significantly as a group compared to the other 12 chemistry students, while no differences occurred between the two groups on an English language proficiency test. This finding was confirmed with 93 students enrolled in the traditional first year chemistry course, where students who failed the diagnostic molecular structure test underachieved consistently as a group, relative to their spatially able peers. (JDD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01