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Stieff, Mike; Origenes, Andrea; DeSutter, Dane; Lira, Matthew; Banevicius, Lukas; Tabang, Dylan; Cabel, Gervacio – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Spatial ability predicts success in STEM (Science, Technology, Education, and Mathematics) fields, particularly chemistry. This paper reports two studies investigating the unique contribution of mental rotation ability to spatial thinking in a STEM discipline. Using authentic disciplinary tasks from chemistry, we show that the difficulty of a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, STEM Education, Spatial Ability, Chemistry