Restructuring Ability and Patterns of Physics Achievement
- 1 April 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 48 (2) , 451-458
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1979.48.2.451
Abstract
For a sample of 24 male and 19 female college students, persons with high visualization ( F1,30 = 7.60, P < .01) and low flexibility of closure ( F1,30 = 6.54, P < .02) attained significantly higher achievement in physics than persons with low visualization or high flexibility of closure. Persons with high restructuring ability and high spatial visualization ( M = 88.64, SD = 15.6) attained a significantly higher level of physics achievement than persons with high restructuring ability and low spatial visualization ( M = 56.5, SD = 25.1). Flexibility of closure, spatial visualization, and the embedded figures test accounted for 23.8%, 18.4%, and 53% of the variability in physics achievement among the entire sample, among males, and among females, respectively. The data provided moderate support for the field-dependence—independence model of psychological differentiation and for investigators who reported a possible link between field-dependnce—independence, visualization, and extent of neurological lateralization.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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