АННОТАЦИЯ
The successful mastering of chemical knowledge is closely related with the chemical thinking development and the elaboration of methods for it measuring. However, as an analysis of literary sources shows that the term “chemical thinking” is used extremely rarely, since it was believed that nature could not afford the luxury of creating special types of thinking for each activity. To assess success in chemistry is usually used either psychological methods that have nothing to do with chemical thinking or a block of chemical tasks, which allow to estimate the range of knowledge, but not the level of chemical thinking. Does chemical thinking exist? Is it possible to develop a Chemical Thinking Test and, if so, what is its reliability? Purpose of the study is to develop a tool for assessing chemical thinking and evaluate its psychometric characteristics. Participants aged 14 to 70 years old were invited to the study. They were asked to evaluate their general and chemical abilities, and then, to solve as quickly as possible the problems of generalization, classification and synthesis of (a) chemical objects and (b) non-chemical ones. The results of the psychometric evaluation of the Chemical Thinking Test (ChTT) indicated its high reliability. Chemical thinking is formed based on mental operations such as analysis, synthesis, comparison, classification, the establishment of identity-difference, the identification of cause-effect relationships and probabilistic evaluation as a result of the selection of elements of thought and their sequences that correspond to the qualitative-quantitative relationships chemical interaction
ЦИТАТА
Volkova, E.V. EVALUATION AND CHEMICAL THINKING DEVELOPMEN / E.V. Volkova. В сборнике: The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences. – 2019. – С. 687-695
