Visual-spatial Ability in STEM Education: Transforming Research into Practice

✍ Scribed by Myint Swe Khine (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Each chapter in this book makes a unique contribution to the body of the literature and enhances the understanding of spatial ability and its influence on learning in the STEM disciplines. It addresses spatial abilities, ways to measure them as well as their impact and how they can affect learning subjects in scientific, technology and engineering domains. The volume deliberately covers a wide range perspectives from cognitive psychology, educational psychology, science, technology, engineering and mathematics, computer science, information technology disciplines to human development. Taking a broad view on the topic, chapters in the book discuss how to define spatial ability and its factors, the measurement of spatial ability and psychometric analyses, and educational strategies to improve spatial skills and their implications for science and technology education. The book thus provides an overview of current thinking about visual-spatial ability, spatial reasoning, and spatial skills.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Spatial Cognition: Key to STEM Success....Pages 3-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Validity of Spatial Ability Tests for Selection into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Career Fields: The Example of Military Aviation....Pages 11-34
Spatial Ability: Measurement and Development....Pages 35-58
Measuring Spatial Visualization: Test Development Study....Pages 59-84
Various Spatial Skills, Gender Differences, and Transferability of Spatial Skills....Pages 85-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
What Innovations Have We Already Lost?: The Importance of Identifying and Developing Spatial Talent....Pages 109-124
Empowering Visuo-spatial Abilities Among Italian Primary School Children: From Theory to Practice....Pages 125-141
The Improvement of Spatial Ability and its Relation to Spatial Training....Pages 143-172
A Spatial-Semiotic Framework in the Context of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)....Pages 173-194
Gender Differences in Spatial Ability: Implications for STEM Education and Approaches to Reducing the Gender Gap for Parents and Educators....Pages 195-224
Ranking and Predicting Results for Different Training Activities to Develop Spatial Abilities....Pages 225-239
How Does Space Interact with Numbers?....Pages 241-263

✦ Subjects

Educational Psychology;Mathematics Education;Science Education