Visualization to Enhance School Students’ Mental Activity

Vaulina N.M. Vaulina F.N.
2021 Common Ground Research Networks

International Journal of Assessment and Evaluation
2021 #28 Issue 2 15 - 33 pp.

The research aimed to develop and test a methodology for enhancing school students’ mental activity based on the regular visualization of learning material. From 2009 to 2011, we developed a methodology for activating mental activity in lessons and derived an algorithm of actions. From 2011 to 2012, ninety-three school students from Rudny, Kazakhstan and Moscow, Russia were involved in the preliminary testing of the methodology, with 75 percent grasping the studied concept or phenomenon. From 2012 to 2013, we designed a chemistry learning program and incorporated the polyphonicity principle, which unifies the visual and logical aspects of the course content. From 2013 to 2016, we tested the methodology’s universality among 600 school students at an experimental site in Rudny. We revealed the methodology’s effectiveness through an increase in school students’ level of personal development, a high level of learning outcomes, and participation in conferences, competitions, and Olympiads. The experiment showed the universality of the methodology due to teachers’ regular visualization of the studied concepts or phenomena and students’ independent visualization of the learning material. As a result, the methodology contributes to the development of students’ creative skills due to an equal load on both brain hemispheres.

Creative Skills , Personal Development , Polyphonicity Principle , Situations of Mental Activity , Students’ , Visualization

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Rudny Industrial Institute, Kazakhstan
School No. 141 Named after Hero of the Soviet Union Richard Sorge, Russian Federation

Rudny Industrial Institute
School No. 141 Named after Hero of the Soviet Union Richard Sorge

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