Kazakhstan Pilot Project
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Winter 1995-Spring 1996

Principal Researcher: Abigail Housen
Senior Research Associate: Karin DeSantis

Treatment: Visual Thinking Strategies Starter Lessons

Assessment tools: Aesthetic Development Interviews, questionnaires, observations, teacher logs, teacher debriefings

Subjects: 18 experimental students, 22 control students, 21 teachers Total Subjects: 52

Findings:

Stage scores from pre-test ADIs showed no statistically significant difference between experimental and control stage mean scores. As expected in a study over this short time period, post-test ADIs also showed no significant difference between experimental and control mean scores. Both experimental and control scores are comparable to scores of American and Russian students of similar ages and exposure; the interviews were coded as beginner viewers. The kinds of thinking exhibited were typical of beginner viewers. The mean stage score for teachers was similar to the mean for teachers in previous studies in the U.S. and Russia. Stage gain in teachers was found in pre-test/post-test comparisons.

Site Coordinators: Inna Saprova, Gulya Suleeva