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Analyzing Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Prompts in Dynamic Geometry Environment Tasks
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Gulkilik, Hilal – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The purpose of this study was to analyze the prompts that preservice secondary mathematics teachers used for the acquisition of mathematics knowledge in dynamic geometry environment tasks. The participants, four preservice secondary mathematics teachers who were enrolled in a computer-supported mathematics education course, designed a dynamic…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Geometry, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Neurofunctional Correlates of Geometry and Feature Use in a Virtual Environment
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Forloines, Martha R.; Reid, Meredith A.; Thompkins, Andie M.; Robinson, Jennifer L.; Katz, Jeffrey S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
There are mixed results regarding the differentiation of neurofunctional correlates of spatial abilities. Previous studies employed complex environments or alternate memory tasks which could potentially add to inconsistencies across studies of navigation. To help elucidate the existing mixed findings, we conducted a study in a simplistic…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Task Analysis, Cues
Influence of Global Shapes on Children's Coding of Local Geometric Information in Small-Scale Spaces
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Chiang, Noelle C. – Learning and Motivation, 2013
This research uses enclosed whole shapes, rather than visual form fragments, to demonstrate that children's use of local geometric information is influenced by global shapes in small-scale spaces. Three- to six-year-old children and adults participated in two experiments with a table-top task. In Experiment 1, participants were presented with a…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Children, Geometric Concepts, Cues
Shape Shifting: Local Landmarks Interfere with Navigation By, and Recognition Of, Global Shape
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Buckley, Matthew G.; Smith, Alastair D.; Haselgrove, Mark – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
An influential theory of spatial navigation states that the boundary shape of an environment is preferentially encoded over and above other spatial cues, such that it is impervious to interference from alternative sources of information. We explored this claim with 3 intradimensional--extradimensional shift experiments, designed to examine the…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Navigation, Cues, Associative Learning
Spinning in the Scanner: Neural Correlates of Virtual Reorientation
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Sutton, Jennifer E.; Joanisse, Marc F.; Newcombe, Nora S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Recent studies have used spatial reorientation task paradigms to identify underlying cognitive mechanisms of navigation in children, adults, and a range of animal species. Despite broad interest in this task across disciplines, little is known about the brain bases of reorientation. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine neural…
Descriptors: Cues, Computer Simulation, Brain, Geometric Concepts
A Viewpoint-Independent Process for Spatial Reorientation
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Nardini, Marko; Thomas, Rhiannon L.; Knowland, Victoria C. P.; Braddick, Oliver J.; Atkinson, Janette – Cognition, 2009
Reorientation tasks, in which disoriented participants attempt to relocate objects using different visual cues, have previously been understood to depend on representing aspects of the global organisation of the space, for example its major axis for judgements based on geometry. Careful analysis of the visual information available for these tasks…
Descriptors: Cues, Spatial Ability, Task Analysis, Inferences