ED produces significantly better attitude shifts than RPQ across reasoning levels, while RPQ concrete-operational thinkers show a -4.2% drop on creative-thinking attitudes¶

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q2 i? Regarding students' level of scientific thinking, the ED method provides significantly better results than the RPQ method, with ED concrete thinkers making the largest shifts. → Marušić and Sliško 2014 q2 i? RPQ concrete-operational thinkers made no progress and their positive attitude toward creative thinking decreased by 4.2%. → Marušić and Sliško 2014 (2)

Evidence¶

Marušić and Sliško 2014¶

Mirko Marušić & Josip Sliško. (2014). High-School Students Believe School Physics Helps in Developing Logical But not Creative Thinking: Active Learning Can Change This Idea. European J of Physics Education, Volume 5 Issue 4. http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/affect/humed.html

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Comparison of post-pre attitude shifts by LCTSR reasoning level (Tables 4 and 5); ED concrete thinkers shifted 47.9% (logical) and 47.6% (creative), and all ED thinker groups achieved statistically significant positive shifts.

"However, regarding to the students' level of scientific thinking, ED method provides significantly better results than the RPQ method. Concrete-operational thinkers in the ED group made the biggest progress of all thi nkers in this group and achieved the largest shift in the perception of the impact physics classes at school on their thinking skills."

Marušić and Sliško 2014 (2)¶

Mirko Marušić & Josip Sliško. (2014). High-School Students Believe School Physics Helps in Developing Logical But not Creative Thinking: Active Learning Can Change This Idea. European J of Physics Education, Volume 5 Issue 4. http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/affect/humed.html

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Within the RPQ group's by-reasoning-level analysis (Table 4), concrete thinkers' positive attitude toward the creative-thinking question fell from 16.7% to 12.5%, a negative shift of -4.2%.

"Surprisingly, concrete thinkers of the RPQ group show a drop in positive attitudes at the post -test in relation to the pre -test. This negative shift is -4.2%, which leaves the final percentage of their positive attitude towards the second exploratory question at 12.5%."

Discussion¶

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