In schools today, tests and curricula are primarily suited to the types of students who excel in mathematics and verbal reasoning. The missing factor in testing and education policy is the measurement, selection, and talent development of students with strengths in spatial reasoning. Spatial reasoning is defined as "the ability to generate,…

Presented are the results of three different studies with introductory psychology classes investigating the relationship between the subjects' perception of transversed distance and the angularity of the route traveled. (BT)

This workbook is for admissions officers who are interested in using a combination of objective test scores and high school grades to forecast an applicant's capacity for freshman academic work. It is intended as a nontechnical guide suitable for readers without any statistical training. It presents the procedures and computations necessary to…

Author maintains that educational testing is based on conservative and established norms of existing social structure. Test scoring is unbiased, but the bases underlying the interpretation of scores are contaminated by prejudices which operate to keep competence from obstructing the social process. (AD)

Presents a distance and time map exercise designed as a crime scenario. Explains that students must determine whether one individual could have committed a series of crimes in a given time period. Includes graph production that gives practice in interpreting and expressing aspects of spatial information. (DK)