Does spatial skills instruction improve STEM outcomes? The answer is 'yes'

S Sorby, N Veurink, S Streiner - Learning and Individual Differences, 2018 - Elsevier
Spatial cognition has long been the subject of research in psychology and education.
Individual differences in spatial ability have been found between males and females. In this …

Creativity and technical innovation: Spatial ability's unique role

HJ Kell, D Lubinski, CP Benbow… - Psychological …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
In the late 1970s, 563 intellectually talented 13-year-olds (identified by the SAT as in the top
0.5% of ability) were assessed on spatial ability. More than 30 years later, the present study …

The influence of spatial visualization training on students' spatial reasoning and mathematics performance

T Lowrie, T Logan, M Hegarty - Journal of Cognition and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Over three decades of research has shown that spatial reasoning and mathematics
performance are highly correlated. Spatial visualization, in particular, has been found to …

Contributions of executive function and spatial skills to preschool mathematics achievement

BN Verdine, CM Irwin, RM Golinkoff… - Journal of experimental …, 2014 - Elsevier
Early mathematics achievement is highly predictive of later mathematics performance. Here
we investigated the influence of executive function (EF) and spatial skills, two generalizable …

Small-sample adjustments for tests of moderators and model fit using robust variance estimation in meta-regression

E Tipton, JE Pustejovsky - Journal of Educational and …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Meta-analyses often include studies that report multiple effect sizes based on a common
pool of subjects or that report effect sizes from several samples that were treated with very …

Recent research on geometry education: An ICME-13 survey team report

N Sinclair, MG Bartolini Bussi, M de Villiers, K Jones… - ZDM, 2016 - Springer
This survey on the theme of Geometry Education (including new technologies) focuses
chiefly on the time span since 2008. Based on our review of the research literature …

The effects of text structure instruction on expository reading comprehension: A meta-analysis.

M Hebert, JJ Bohaty, JR Nelson… - Journal of Educational …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
In this meta-analysis of 45 studies involving students in Grades 2–12, the authors present
evidence on the effects of text structure instruction on the expository reading comprehension …

The Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory of cognitive abilities

WJ Schneider, KS McGrew - … intellectual assessment: Theories …, 2018 - books.google.com
The Cattell–Horn–Carroll theory of cognitive abilities (CHC theory) is a comprehensive
taxonomy of abilities embedded in multiple overlapping theories of cognition. Like all good …

How much can spatial training improve STEM achievement?

M Stieff, D Uttal - Educational Psychology Review, 2015 - Springer
Spatial training has been indicated as a possible solution for improving Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) achievement and degree attainment …

[HTML][HTML] A heuristic framework of spatial ability: A review and synthesis of spatial factor literature to support its translation into STEM education

J Buckley, N Seery, D Canty - Educational Psychology Review, 2018 - Springer
An abundance of empirical evidence exists identifying a significant correlation between
spatial ability and educational performance particularly in science, technology, engineering …