The purposes of the study were to investigate the effects of visual treatment
on students&rsquo / opinion in terms of thinking process and students&rsquo / opinion in terms of
feelings in the spatial ability activities / to investigate the effects of visual
treatment on student&rsquo / s spatial ability, spatial visualization and spatial orientation
The study was conducted in Ankara with 21 sixth-grade elementary school
students. One group pretest-posttest design was used. Two measuring instruments
were utilized: Spatial Ability Test and Spatial Problem Attitude Scale. Spatial
Ability Test, which was developed by Ekstrom, consists of paper folding and
surface development tests measuring the spatial visualization ability and card
rotation together with cube comparison tests measuring the spatial orientation
ability. The tests were translated into Turkish by Delialioglu, (1996). Spatial
Problem Attitude Scale was developed by researcher. The study employed both
quantitative and qualitative research using a mixed method design. The researcher
conducted 9 interviews with nine 6th grade students from the same class. The
students were asked their opinion about the visual treatment in terms of thinking
process and feelings in the spatial ability activities. Additionally, the class was
observed during their activity time that continued 10 weeks and five hours per
week.In order to analyze the obtained data, Friedman and Wilcoxon tests as well
as one-way repeated measures Analysis of Variance were used. To analyze data
obtained from interviews, the phenomenographic method was used.
The results of the study indicated that there was a statistically significant
change in students&rsquo / spatial ability, spatial orientation and spatial visualization
scores across three time periods (pre treatment, post treatment and retention). All
three scores were significantly different from each other. Test scores were
significantly higher immediately after the visual treatment than those before the
treatment. The test scores one month later were significantly lower than those
immediately after the treatment, but significantly higher than the scores before the
treatment.
The findings suggest that visual treatment has positive effects on students&rsquo / spatial cognitive process and their attitudes toward spatial ability problems.
Selection of the appropriate visual treatment should be based on students&rsquo / needs
and their cognitive development level for providing better learning environment
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610012/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 September 2008 |
| Creators | Bayrak, Mahmut Emre |
| Contributors | Bulut, Safure |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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