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Direct linkGrace Bennett-Pierre; Thomas F. Shipley; Nora S. Newcombe; Elizabeth A. Gunderson – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
Non-rigid spatial thinking, or mental transformations where the distance between two points in an object changes (e.g., folding, breaking, bending), is required for many STEM fields but remains critically understudied. We developed and tested a non-rigid, ductile spatial skill measure based on reasoning about knots with 279 US adults (M = 30.90,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Spatial Ability, Gender Differences, Object Manipulation
Lukas Schmitt; Anke Weber; Dominik Weber; Miriam Leuchter – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Promoting children's science knowledge by adequate measures such as guided or free play is a cardinal goal of preschool. However, there is considerable variability in preschool teachers' instructional quality in block play, which might be associated with children's domain-specific science skills but also their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education
