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Sweeney Scully, Sloan.

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Visual Thinking Skills and Elementary Students' Writing.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Visual Thinking Skills and Elementary Students' Writing./
Author:	Sweeney Scully, Sloan.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	200 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-08A.
Subject:	Elementary education. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28155053
ISBN:	9798569924554

Visual Thinking Skills and Elementary Students' Writing.
Sweeney Scully, Sloan.

Visual Thinking Skills and Elementary Students' Writing. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 200 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-08, Section: A.

Thesis (D.Litt.)--Drew University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This study examines the impact of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) lessons on elementary students and their writing competency. Over the course of one school year, second grade students in a public school in New Jersey were exposed to the VTS protocol as established by Abigail Housen in her Theory of Aesthetic Development. These students' pre and post writing samples were compared to those of students who did not participate in VTS lessons and analyzed for growth. Results indicate VTS lessons have a significant impact on students in several areas. Students exposed to VTS lessons strengthened their ability to listen and reflect, something difficult to develop and much needed in elementary students. Students' writing displayed a stronger use of words that helped readers picture their story, also known as craft. Achievement and growth in this area was especially significant with students for whom English was not their first language. Students exposed to VTS lessons demonstrated higher-level thinking when discussing artwork. This is particularly significant, considering that students need to become sophisticated viewers of images so they are best able to navigate the visual worlds in which they live. The skill to discern between images that are valuable and those that are not is necessary so students are able to make accurate judgements on what they see all around them. Students in this study also developed their capacity to back up their opinions with evidence, were able to influence others' opinions, and more significantly, developed the capacity to have their own opinions influenced by others. Perhaps most significant was the finding that abstract images, more than representational or realistic images, enabled students to make inferences and use higher level thinking skills. This finding should inform educators as to the types of images displayed in elementary school as well as the types of images used to facilitate instruction. All of these results further support the idea that students who have developed their skills in viewing, or seeing, will be better writers and thinkers, as they will have much more to say.

ISBN: 9798569924554Subjects--Topical Terms:

641385
Elementary education.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)

Visual Thinking Skills and Elementary Students' Writing.
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