The Effectiveness of Stereoscopic Viewing in the Learning of Spatial Relationships in Structural Chemistry.

The article examines the effectiveness of stereoscopic presentation in improving the visualization of spatial relationships in structural chemistry. Two programmed texts were used to present the written content of the experiment. The first program introduced concepts by associating them with the str...

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Published in:	Journal of Research in Science Teaching Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 265 - 271
Main Authors:	Holford, D. G., Kempa, R. F.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Sep1970
Subjects:	Stereoscopy Chemistry Three-dimensional display systems Visualization Information display systems Structural frame models Crystals Learning Photographs
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article examines the effectiveness of stereoscopic presentation in improving the visualization of spatial relationships in structural chemistry. Two programmed texts were used to present the written content of the experiment. The first program introduced concepts by associating them with the structures of fictional two-dimensional crystals presented as line-drawings. On the other hand, the second program contained frames requiring responses. The ideas developed were revised and applied to problems in which crystals were represented by photographs of structural models. It was concluded that its use in the program resulted in an increased performance level in the non-stereoscopic test.