Evaluation of the use of spatial thinking components ( concepts , representation tools and reasoning tools ) in educational pathways

GEOTHNK is an online repository and authoring environment for the collection, creation, and sharing of educational resources that cultivate spatial thinking skills through different disciplines and educational contexts. It is based on the definition of spatial thinking as a constructive synthesis of three components: (a) concepts of space, (b) tools of representation, and (c) processes of reasoning [16]. The GEOTHNK platform provides for the incorporation of these three components in the process of developing educational pathways. The paper presents the analytics of the GEOTHNK repository and evaluates the use of spatial thinking components in pathways based on the three-dimensional taxonomy of spatial thinking developed by [10].