Visual Thinking Strategies Pilot Study St. Petersburg Russia
Spring 1994
Principal Researcher: Abigail Housen
Senior Research Associate: Karin DeSantis
Treatment: Visual Thinking Strategies Starter Lessons
Assessment tools: Pre and post Aesthetic Development Interviews, questionnaires and teacher debriefings
Subjects: 60 4th grade students Total Subjects: 60
Findings:
As expected in a treatment of short duration, the stage scores derived from pre-test and post-test ADIs showed no statistically significant difference. The subjects coded as beginner viewers with the kinds of thinking exhibited typical of beginner viewers. These findings reveal that the method and coding manual are robust in another culture.
Site Coordinator: Liubov Vaniushkina, St. Petersburg Pedagogical University
link to St. Petersburg Study 1994-1996- #12 coming soon