The malleability of spatial skills: a meta-analysis of training studies.

DH Uttal, NG Meadow, E Tipton, LL Hand… - Psychological …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Having good spatial skills strongly predicts achievement and attainment in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics fields (eg, Shea, Lubinski, & Benbow, 2001; Wai …

The effects of robotics training on children's spatial ability and attitude toward STEM

B Sisman, S Kucuk, Y Yaman - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2021 - Springer
Robotics technology has gained significance in educational environments in recent years.
Educational robotics provide students with the opportunity to collaborate in science …

Principles for learning and competences in the 21st-century curriculum

C Acedo, C Hughes - Prospects, 2014 - Springer
This article addresses the core competences, attitudes and knowledge that the authors
believe will promote transformative learning in the 21 st century and should, therefore …

Exploring the development of mental rotation and computational skills in elementary students through educational robotics

PD Diago, JA González-Calero, DF Yáñez - International Journal of Child …, 2022 - Elsevier
Interest in educational robotics has increased over the last decade. Through various
approaches, robots are being used in the teaching and learning of different subjects at …

Spatial ability learning through educational robotics

C Julià, JÒ Antolí - International Journal of Technology and Design …, 2016 - Springer
Several authors insist on the importance of students' acquisition of spatial abilities and
visualization in order to have academic success in areas such as science, technology or …

Inscriptions in science teaching: from realism to abstraction

P Pantidos, G Fragkiadaki, G Kaliampos… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This article attempts to highlight inscriptions, ie, photographs, drawings, diagrams, or graphs
as autonomous carriers of meaning that can illuminate the different dimensions of a scientific …

The malleability of spatial ability under treatment of a FIRST LEGO league-based robotics simulation

SV Coxon - Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
A stratified random sample of volunteer participants (N= 75) aged 9 to 14 was drawn from 16
public school districts' gifted programs, including as many females (n= 28) and children from …

Enhancing spatial ability and mechanical reasoning through a STEM course

C Julià, JÒ Antolì - International Journal of Technology and Design …, 2018 - Springer
There is a clear contemporary interest for developing science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) at schools. Besides, there exist a lot of research that justify the …

Enhancing computational thinking skills of students with disabilities

SB Kert, S Yeni, M Fatih Erkoç - Instructional Science, 2022 - Springer
Computational thinking (CT) and computer science (CS) are becoming more widely adopted
in K-12 education. However, there is a lack of focus on CT and CS access for children with …

From what age is mental rotation training effective? Differences in preschool age but not in sex

LM Fernández-Méndez, MJ Contreras… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Currently, there is evidence that spatial skills training leads to an improvement of such skills,
although studies with children in the Preschool stage are very scarce. This paper aims to …