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Buckley, Jeffrey; Seery, Niall; Canty, Donal – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
A core aim of contemporary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is the development of robust problem-solving skills. This can be achieved by fostering both discipline knowledge expertise and general cognitive abilities associated with problem solving. One of the most important cognitive abilities in STEM education is…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Mathematics Instruction, Geometric Concepts, Problem Solving
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Zippert, Erica L.; Clayback, Kelsey; Rittle-Johnson, Bethany – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2019
Preschoolers' patterning skills are predictive of their concurrent and later math knowledge; however, it is unclear if patterning is only a proxy for general intelligence, or how it might support specific math skills. The current study examined the relation between 66 preschool children's patterning skills and their general cognitive abilities,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Spatial Ability, Mathematics Skills, Cognitive Ability
Zippert, Erica L.; Clayback, Kelsey; Rittle-Johnson, Bethany – Grantee Submission, 2019
Preschoolers' patterning skills are predictive of their concurrent and later math knowledge; however, it is unclear if patterning is only a proxy for general intelligence, or how it might support specific math skills. The current study examined the relation between 66 preschool children's patterning skills and their general cognitive abilities,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Spatial Ability, Mathematics Skills, Cognitive Ability
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Bower, Corinne; Zimmermann, Laura; Verdine, Brian; Toub, Tamara Spiewak; Islam, Siffat; Foster, Lindsey; Evans, Natalie; Odean, Rosalie; Cibischino, Amanda; Pritulsky, Calla; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Spatial skills are associated with mathematics skills, but it is unclear if spatial training transfers to mathematics skills for preschoolers, especially from underserved communities. The current study tested (a) whether spatial training benefited preschoolers' spatial and mathematics skills, (b) if the type of feedback provided during spatial…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Spatial Ability, Feedback (Response), Transfer of Training
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Johnson, Heather Lynn; McClintock, Evan; Hornbein, Peter – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2017
Using an actor-oriented perspective on transfer, we report a case of a student's transfer of covariational reasoning across tasks involving different backgrounds and features. In this study, we investigated the research question: How might a student's covariational reasoning on Ferris wheel tasks, involving attributes of distance, width, and…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Transfer of Training, Learning Strategies, Thinking Skills
Avant, Sherice Brake – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The overall goal of the present study was to develop, implement, and test the effectiveness of a curriculum designed to improve spatial thinking amongst preschool children. Specifically, the study explored the effects of shape-based training on 4-year-old children's ability to disembed and whether the training transferred to improvement in mental…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Preschool Children, Cognitive Ability, Transfer of Training
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Verdine, Brian N.; Bunger, Ann; Athanasopoulou, Angeliki; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Learning the names of geometric shapes is at the intersection of early spatial, mathematical, and language skills, all important for school-readiness and predictors of later abilities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). We investigated whether socioeconomic status (SES) influenced children's processing of shape names and…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Preschool Children, Geometric Concepts, Naming
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Quaiser-Pohl, Claudia; Neuburger, Sarah; Heil, Martin; Jansen, Petra; Schmelter, Andrea – International Journal of Testing, 2014
This article presents a reanalysis of the data of 862 second and fourth graders collected in two previous studies, focusing on the influence of method (psychometric vs. chronometric) and stimulus type on the gender difference in mental-rotation accuracy. The children had to solve mental-rotation tasks with animal pictures, letters, or cube…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Accuracy, Age Differences
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Kurtulus, Aytac; Yolcu, Belma – Mathematics Educator, 2013
The aim of this study is to evaluate sixth-grade Turkish students' spatial visualization ability and to determine the strategies that students employ and the mistakes that they make while solving the problems requiring spatial reasoning. Therefore, the study examined the following achievements: visualizing different view images of…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Elementary School Students, Spatial Ability, Foreign Countries
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Jones, Manon W.; Branigan, Holly P.; Parra, Mario A.; Logie, Robert H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
The ability to learn visual-phonological associations is a unique predictor of word reading, and individuals with developmental dyslexia show impaired ability in learning these associations. In this study, we compared developmentally dyslexic and nondyslexic adults on their ability to form cross-modal associations (or "bindings") based…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Dyslexia, Predictor Variables, Associative Learning
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Elia, Iliada; Gagatsis, Athanasios; Panaoura, Areti; Zachariades, Theodosis; Zoulinaki, Fotini – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2009
The present study explores students' abilities in conversions between geometric and algebraic representations, in problem-solving situations involving the concept of "limit" and the interrelation of these abilities with students' constructed understanding of this concept. An attempt is also made to examine the impact of the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Geometric Concepts, Spatial Ability
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Merrotsy, Peter – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2008
The concept of symmetry is fundamental to mathematics. Arguments and proofs based on symmetry are often aesthetically pleasing because they are subtle and succinct and non-standard. This article uses notions of symmetry to approach the solutions to a broad range of mathematical problems. It responds to Krutetskii's criteria for mathematical…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Mathematics Instruction, Cognitive Ability, Mathematical Logic
Mumaw, Randall J.; And Others – 1982
Twenty-eight engineering students were presented with complex spatial problems to investigate the effects of spatial aptitude and strategy selection on problem solving. Aptitude was determined by spatial aptitude test scores and strategy was determined by verbal reports and latency measures. It was found that aptitude determined the efficiency…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Cognitive Ability, College Students, Educational Research
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Wolf, Yuval – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1995
Five- to six-year-old children estimated the size of Euclidian objects using an addition rule of Height plus Width, rather than a multiplying rule. Within the framework of information integration theory, tested whether intensive handling of objects would facilitate shift from addition rule to multiplication rule. Found that following handling,…
Descriptors: Addition, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Smith, Glenn Gordon; Middleton, James A. – Australian Educational Computing, 2003
This study compared interaction with a computer vs. observation as learning situations for low and high ability student's learning of spatial visualization and geometric transformations. Thirty-two fifth grade boys took the Differential Aptitude Test, Space Relations Subset (DAT), and then participated in the experiment. Pre-test and post-test…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Low Achievement, Observational Learning, Aptitude Tests