Spatial Thinking in Undergraduate Science Education

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  • Mary Hegarty
چکیده

Spatial ability has been dubbed the "Sleeping Giant" in education in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) (Lubinsky, 2010). We know, from research done over the past several decades, that visuospatial thinking is central to the learning and doing of science (see Ramadas, 2009 for a review), and leads to success in many professions related to science and mathematics (Hegarty, 2014). A longitudinal study by Wai et. al in USA (Wai, Lubinsky and Benbow, 2009) aligned 50 years of research on spatial ability and STEM education. They found that spatial ability assessed during adolescence is a strong predictor of future performance in STEM domains and professions, even more so than mathematical and verbal ability.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Spatial Cognition & Computation

دوره 14  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014