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Özge Demirezer; Sirin Ilkörücü – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the science activities supported by the Web 2.0 tools at the 7th-grade secondary school level had an impact on the students' academic achievement, visual literacy level and spatial visualization skills. The study was designed in accordance with the nonequivalent control group design. The study…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Academic Achievement, Visual Literacy, Spatial Ability
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Mevlüt Ünal – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2024
Living in a world rich in digital images requires students and educators to have more visual literacy skills. The aim of this study is to examine the attitudes and visual literacy of secondary school students towards digital images on a relational basis. 188 secondary school students from two private schools in Türkiye participated in the study…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Private Schools, Foreign Countries, Visual Literacy
Stradtmann, Amy A. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Motivation and engagement are often barriers to literacy for adolescent readers. Traditionally, the graphic novel has been seen as easy to read and a resource that only has value for students with language difficulties or learning challenges. This qualitative case study investigated how middle school readers' ability to make meaning contributed to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Motivation, Learner Engagement, Reading
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Deringöl, Yasemin – Education 3-13, 2020
This study was conducted with students attending middle schools in the province of Istanbul in Turkey in order to examine middle school students' visual mathematics literacy self-efficacy perceptions and their self-efficacy in geometry. Research data were collected using the 'Visual Mathematics Literacy Self-Efficacy Perceptions Scale' and the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Lin, Show-Yu; Lin, Chen-Yung; Hsin, Ming-Chin – Journal of Biological Education, 2019
Visual representations are a familiar element of daily life and particularly beneficial as illustrations in science textbooks. In this case, learners draw on human dimensions such as cognitive style (CS) and prior knowledge (PK) when engaging in visual thinking. This study aimed to compare and explore the relationships among the format aspect…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Visual Learning, Cognitive Style, Illustrations
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Sarikaya, Bunyamin – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2018
The aim of this study is to examine the critical visual reading skills of secondary school students (5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade) in terms of different variables (gender and grade level). Study sample consisted of 400 students of 4 schools located in the city center of Mus. A screening model was used in the research. Data were collected using the…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Critical Reading, Visual Literacy
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Stenliden, Linnéa; Bodén, Ulrika; Nissen, Jörgen – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2019
The study explores students' production of interactive visualized stories with visual analytics (VA). The aim is to understand emerging interactions in classrooms of grades 7-9 students when visual storytelling methods are playing a part in producing social science content. The dual aspects of visual literacy, information retrievement paired with…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Story Telling
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Peterson, Matthew O. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Science education researchers have turned their attention to the use of images in textbooks, both because pages are heavily illustrated and because visual literacy is an important aptitude for science students. Text-image integration in the textbook is described here as composition schemes in increasing degrees of integration: prose primary (PP),…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Science Curriculum, Science Education, Statistical Analysis
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – Journal of Children's Literature, 2014
Picturebooks were one format of multimodal text used during the classroom-based research that is featured in this article. Although the research conducted with a class of grade 7 students had several overarching purposes, the two most relevant to this article were to investigate student development of visual meaning-making skills and competencies…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Illustrations, Middle School Students, Grade 7
Galyas, Lesley Crowell – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Understanding of visual representations is a pivotal skill necessary in science. These visual, verbal, and numeric representations are the crux of science discourses "by scientists, with students and the general public" (Pauwels, 2006, p.viii). Those who lack the understanding of these representations see it as a foreign language, one…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Visual Literacy, Science Achievement, Inquiry
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – English in Australia, 2014
During a classroom-based study that explored the teaching and learning of visual elements of art and design, Grade 7 students had the opportunity to read four graphic novels. Theoretically, the research was informed by social semiotics, visual literacy, sociocultural theory, and Rosenblatt's transactional theory of reading. The instructional unit…
Descriptors: Novels, Picture Books, Cartoons, Grade 7
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – English in Education, 2015
Explicit pedagogy that focuses on visual design and composition principles can affect students' responses to and understanding, interpretation and analysis of images, as well as the creation of their own visual representations. This article considers the why, the what, and the how of teaching various visual elements of art and design to students…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Semiotics, Art Education, Design
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Yeh, Yi-Fen Y.; McTigue, Erin M. – School Science and Mathematics, 2009
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent that diagrammatic literacy is necessary for success on standardized science tests at the late-elementary and middle grade levels. Towards this goal, we quantified the frequency, form and function of graphical representations on select state science tests. 985 tests items from 14 states were…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Standardized Tests, Visual Aids, Test Items
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Seyfried, Jonathan – Knowledge Quest, 2008
Teachers often find themselves lamenting the loss of emergent readers to video games, television, and, most recently, the TTYL (talk/type to you later) culture of text messaging and Internet social networking. Trying to impart the joy of a good read to middle school students feels like pushing religion onto the perfectly content worshipers of…
Descriptors: Novels, Cartoons, School Libraries, Adolescent Literature
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De Abreu, Belinha – Knowledge Quest, 2008
Most seventh grade students partially define themselves through everyday media messages. As a part of understanding how these images and the media impacts their lives, the author collaborated with her colleagues to develop a unit to help teens learn how visual messages such as those in pictures, media icons, logos, slogans, clothing, toys, and…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Mass Media Effects, Visual Aids, Visual Literacy
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