Eastern European and Central Asian Regional Program
Soros Foundations of Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, and Ukraine

Spring 1997-Spring 2000

Principal Researcher: Abigail Housen
Senior Research Associate: Karin DeSantis

Treatment: Visual Thinking Strategies Starter Lessons; Visual Thinking Strategies Curriculum

Assessment tools: Pre and post Aesthetic Development Interviews and questionnaires; teacher debriefings; observations; teacher logs

Subjects: At each site: 30 Experimental 1st-3rd grade students, 30 Control 1st-3rd grade students

Findings:

Data collected in Lithuania currently in analysis. Due to budget cuts the post data was not collected at the other sites.

Site Coordinators: Teams coordinated by local Soros Foundations.