Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Lugano, İsviçre, 21 - 26 Haziran 2004, ss.4293-4300, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
This study has important implications for design of microworlds such as Hypergami, and Logo which use interactivity to help students learn spatial mental models involving math and science. This study tested the hypothesis that interactively rotating (dragging) virtual shapes primes mental rotation. The independent variable was interaction vs. observation: a) manually rotating a shape on the computer, versus b) watching an animation of a shape rotating. The dependent variable was mental rotation of the same shape. To address cross-cultural accessibility factors 9 year-old American and Turkish children participated. For Americans, the interactive group mentally rotated significantly more accurately and faster than the observational group. For Turks, no significant differences occurred between the interactive and observational groups. 100% of Americans had computers at home, but only 1/4 of the Turkish did. Computer ownership and frequency of computer game play were significant environmental differences, which appear to mediate the priming effect.