Improving Students' Visual Penetration Ability and Substrata Visualization in the Geologic Sciences with 3D Interactive Animation

利用3D互动动画提高地质科学学生的视觉穿透能力和地层可视化

• 批准号: 0837626
• 负责人: Dale Klopfer
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Bowling Green State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0837626&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Students; Visual; Penetration; Ability

Geology (42) Spatial thinking can be characterized as the ability to solve problems that require both external and mental representations of spatial information while engaging reasoning abilities that generate information not provided in the original problem. This project includes: (1) understanding the nature of visual penetration, a form of spatial thinking in the geosciences; (2) creating a learning module that uses three-dimensional interactive animation (3DIA) to support the acquisition of visual penetration skills by all students; and (3) evaluating the effectiveness of the learning module within the context of an introductory laboratory course in geology. This project builds upon the findings of a prior CCLI project that developed an instructional module designed to teach students how to interpret topographic maps and visualize topographic profiles. The use of this instructional module contributed to improvements in performance and learning. This project is examining the nature of spatial thinking in tasks involving geologic blocks and involves developing and evaluating an instructional module designed to improve students' abilities to perform those tasks. The same approach is being taken to develop 3DIA modules designed to improve visual penetration ability and subsurface visualization for a college-level geology course. The results of this project are adding to the knowledge in the fields of cognitive science, multimedia learning, science education, and differential psychology. This project is helping to advance our understanding of the role that technology plays in aiding persons disadvantaged by low spatial ability in domains where spatial problem solving is central. As those domains readily exist in STEM areas, the outcome of the proposed work contributes to the improvement of delivery of undergraduate instruction in those areas. Because the proposed work uses low-cost technologies, the potential for widespread distribution is high. The approach being used to develop 3DIA learning modules can be applied to any domain in which spatial thinking is used (e.g., anatomy, chemistry, and mathematics).

地质学(42)空间思维可以被描述为这样一种能力，即解决需要空间信息的外部和心理表征的问题的能力，同时利用推理能力产生原始问题中没有提供的信息。该项目包括：(1)了解视觉渗透的性质，这是地球科学中的一种空间思维形式；(2)创建一个使用三维互动动画(3DIA)的学习模块，以支持所有学生获得视觉渗透技能；以及(3)在地质学入门实验室课程的背景下评估学习模块的有效性。这个项目建立在先前CCLI项目的基础上，该项目开发了一个教学模块，旨在教会学生如何解释地形图和可视化地形剖面。这一教学单元的使用有助于改进成绩和学习。该项目正在研究涉及地质区块的任务中空间思维的性质，并涉及开发和评估一个旨在提高学生执行这些任务的能力的教学模块。正在采用同样的方法开发3DIA模块，旨在提高大学级地质学课程的视觉渗透能力和地下可视化。该项目的成果增加了认知科学、多媒体学习、科学教育和差异心理学领域的知识。这一项目有助于增进我们对技术在帮助在空间问题解决为中心的领域中因空间能力低下而处于不利地位的人所起的作用的理解。由于这些领域在STEM地区随处可见，拟议工作的成果有助于改善这些地区的本科教学。由于拟议中的作品使用低成本技术，因此广泛传播的可能性很高。用于开发3DIA学习模块的方法可以应用于任何使用空间思维的领域(例如，解剖学、化学和数学)。