Advances in Historical Studies 2013. Vol.2, No.1, 17-18 Published Online March 2013 in SciRes (http://www.scirp.org/journal/ahs) http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ahs.2013.21005 Copyright © 2013 SciRes. 17 Review Ph.D. Thesis: Psyco-Education Factors of Applying Visualisation in Science Education. Šiauliai University, Lithuania * Raffaele Pisano 1,2 1 Sciences, Sociétés, Cultures dans leurs Evolutions, University of Lille 1, Lille, France 2 Research Center for Theory and History of Science, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic Email: pisanoraffaele@iol.it Received December 23 rd , 2012; revised January 26 th , 2013; accepted February 8 th , 2013 This paper presents a review of a Ph.D. Thesis by Renata Bilbokaitė, Natural Science Education Research Centre, Šiauliai University, Lithuania. Keywords: History of Science and Science Education; Science and Society; Economy; I.T. On the Author Renata Bilbokaitė, already busy with research as junior worker at the Natural Science Education Research Centre at Šiauliai University, defends her Ph.D. Thesis at the same Uni- versity in November 2012: Psycho-Educational Factors of Applying Visualisation in Science Education. Language: Li- thuanian/English. Research supervisor: Prof. Dr. Vincentas La- manauskas (Šiauliai University, Lithuania). The location of the defense is the Academic Council of Education Studies of Ši- auliai University. The committee is composed of a distinguish- ed and international members and opponents. Her doctoral studies involved 2009-2012 period. She prepared and published over 100 scientific articles in scientific journals, and presented over 80 works in international as well as national scientific and practical conferences, giving lectures for teachers, in the sphere of science education particularly focusing on applying visuali- sation in science education, management & quality in the higher education, image of pedagogues. On the General Description and Topicality The thesis is organized by an Introduction and three main chapters. 1) Visualisation in science education: psycho-educa- tional context concerning a state of art on the main objects and interactions of cognitive and socio-educational aspects; 2) Empiric psycho-educational factors of applying visualisation in science education on Epistemic-Exploratory-Diagnostic-Veri- fication methodologies and related results; 3) Psycho-educa- tional model of applying visualisation within science education, the nucleus of the thesis on this new modelling approach in science education studies. Passionate and interesting Discussion and Conclusions included Recommendations for different kind of readers and an international and updated list of References close the volume of this notable doctoral research under an excellent and proficient supervision. A CD-Rom is annexed, too. The results of the dissertation research are illustrated by 72 figures and 31 tables. The author has performed good orientation and wide educa- tional and scientific knowledge of different parts of theory of science education considered in the thesis: epistemic analyses, analytical approach, and experimental approach included analysis of data. The topic of thesis is contemporary and relevant in the con- text of up-to-date research in the sphere of science education, science and society. Particularly, a useful relevance of the Ph.D. thesis is [...] is supposed by the complex assimilation of knowl- edge in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geography and Ma- thematics in comprehensive schools, which is affected by many factors, linked with conditions of the information representation within educational reality (p. 9). The Introduction focus on the role played by the contempo- rary society, its transformations and technological progress related to science education and ITC. The chapter one is mainly focused on Application of aids in lessons of past, present and future and aspects of learning- genders (9 paragraphs). The chapter two ascribes on Attention and memory within structures of mental models’ formation and related motivations within the educational contexts (7 paragraphs). The chapter three is dedicated to study the methodology and results applied to epistemic and exploratory procedures of visu- alization in science education. It is composed of Discussion, Conclusions and Recommendations. On the Aims, Methods and Benefits The aims and methods are performed in the Introduction as well as the hypothesis and methods of the research. Thanks to the using of different fonts and structure of the text is proper and helps the reader to better orientation in the text. One of the greatest problems within the reality of the science education is the inappropriate understanding of conceptions, phenomenon, topics and other elements of the content. Learners * Short review. In the running text of this paper some quotations are cited. The pages refers her Ph.D. thesis.