ERIC Number: EJ1420425
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 42
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Enhancing Students' Critical Thinking and Visualisation Skills through Mobile Augmented Reality
Knowledge Management & E-Learning, v16 n1 p1-41 2024
Augmented Reality (AR) has emerged in our educational paradigm as a new tool to accelerate change in the teaching and learning process. This technology can improve students' visualisation skills, which helps them understand abstract concepts, especially in Chemistry. Furthermore, visualisation skills help improve students' critical thinking. This study was conducted with 16 secondary students. Before and after the intervention, students were required to complete a Purdue Spatial Visualisation Test to measure their visualisation skills. During four weeks of intervention, students explored the content using a mobile augmented reality application for learning chemical bonds (called CBOND) and completed critical thinking tasks each week. This study employed data mining using a decision tree to predict the path to improving students' visualisation and critical thinking skills in learning chemical bonds. The results revealed that CBOND had a significant effect on students' visualisation and critical thinking development. Therefore, this study proved that augmented reality technology could help students to visualise abstract concepts, especially in Chemistry, and in turn, foster their higher level of critical thinking.
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Visualization, Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation, Technology Uses in Education, Chemistry, Secondary School Students, Spatial Ability, Visual Measures, Handheld Devices
Laboratory of Knowledge Management & E-Learning. Web site: http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Purdue Spatial Visualization Test
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