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Destina Wahyu Winarti; Sitti Maesuri Patahuddin; Tom Lowrie – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2024
This study assessed the effectiveness of a spatialized mathematics intervention on the mathematical performance and spatial visualization skills of students from an underprivileged Indonesian community. Grade 8 students (N = 407) were assigned to one of twelve experimental classes, receiving the spatial mathematics intervention, or one of seven…
Descriptors: Middle School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Processes, Visualization
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Rajendran Govender; Godfred Amevor – Pythagoras, 2025
Geometry learning has a long history with the connection to human cognitive development. The ability to mentally or physically orient 2D shapes or 3D objects in space is believed to support achievement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Thus, geometry by its description is characterised by space; hence its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 11, Mathematics Skills
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Arrighi, Linda; Hausmann, Markus – Learning & Memory, 2022
A recent meta-synthesis study with a sample of >12 million participants revealed that the male advantage in mental rotation (MR) is the largest cognitive sex/gender difference found in psychological literature. MR requires test takers to mentally rotate three-dimensional cubic figures under time restrictions. Previous studies have investigated…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Anxiety, Self Esteem, Gender Differences
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Dinah Reuter; Frank Reinhold – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2025
The perception and manipulation of spatial information are essential for mathematical learning, and research highlights gender differences in spatial abilities. The present study contributes to the question of whether these differences are evident at earlier ages and how they interact with task complexity in mental rotation. We developed the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Spatial Ability, Mathematics Instruction, Gender Differences
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Lauren Baade; Effie Kartsonaki; Hassan Khosravi; Gwendolyn A. Lawrie – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
Effective learning in chemistry education requires students to understand visual representations across multiple conceptual levels. Essential to this process are visuospatial skills which enable students to interpret and manipulate these representations effectively. These abilities allow students to construct mental models that support problem…
Descriptors: Visualization, Thinking Skills, Spatial Ability, Problem Solving
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Acikgul, Kubra; Sad, Suleyman Nihat; Altay, Bilal – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2023
This study aimed to develop a useful test to measure university students' spatial abilities validly and reliably. Following a sequential explanatory mixed methods research design, first, qualitative methods were used to develop the trial items for the test; next, the psychometric properties of the test were analyzed through quantitative methods…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Scores, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Validity
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Sevgi Demirel; Hatice Cetin – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2023
This study aims to develop a new spatial visualization test (SVT) for second grade primary school students. The study employed the survey design, and the test was developed in accordance with the test development steps. According to the findings obtained as a result of the pilot study, the items were generally high difficulty levels, and they were…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Spatial Ability
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Kozhevnikov, Maria; Ho, Shuen; Koh, Elizabeth – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2022
The current research addresses the question of the multidimensional relationship between visual abilities, visual cognitive style, and creativity (artistic and scientific) in Singaporean students of 13-14 years old. Three hundred seventy students (100 students in Study 1 and 270 students in Study 2) from two typical secondary schools in Singapore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Middle School Students, Cognitive Style
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Vagova, Renata; Kmetova, Maria; Lavicza, Zsolt – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2020
Although we move and live in three-dimensional space, many prefer "two-dimensional" thinking in mathematics lessons. As a result, the transition between physical objects and their graphical representations can be considered one of the most common difficulties in learning and teaching solid geometry. This paper describes results of our…
Descriptors: Geometry, Visualization, Problem Solving, Visual Aids
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Weigelt, Matthias; Memmert, Daniel – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2021
Purpose: The purpose was (1) to test a new version of a mental rotation task (MRT), which assesses mental rotation abilities of men and women for sport-specific items, and (2) to investigate potential differences in MRT performance, which are based on athletic expertise. Methods: Eighty-eight basketball experts (42 females) and 123 novices (64…
Descriptors: Athletes, Team Sports, Spatial Ability, Visualization
Harris, Danielle – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2021
Spatial reasoning is identified as a Numeracy general capability in the Australian Curriculum, and more globally as a significant precursor to mathematics proficiency. Currently, the literature surrounding mathematical-spatial relations remains largely removed from classroom practice. This paper provides a reflection on the spatial cognition field…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Logic, Thinking Skills
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Sahin, Feride; Ates, Salih – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2023
The aim of this study is to examine whether the structural model that Sahin and Ates (2020) put forward about the relationship among students' scientific literacy levels, logical thinking ability, cognitive styles, mental capacity, and mental rotation ability differ in terms of gender. A causal-comparative model approach was used in this study.…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Correlation, Individual Differences, Gender Differences
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Lütke, Nikolay; Lange-Küttner, Christiane – Developmental Psychology, 2021
We investigated mental rotation in children by systematically varying the adult cube aggregate's set size, rotation angle, and picture/depth plane rotations in a new test. Eighty 4- to 11-year-old mainly middle-class children (British Indian and British African majority and white minority; 40 girls and 40 boys) were assessed using the new…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Spatial Ability, Visualization, Children
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Milenkovic, Aleksandar; Takaci, Ðurdica; Božic, Radoslav – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
In this paper the authors described the influence of the computer-based environment on students' learning achievement of the multidimensional calculus, in particular double integrals. The research was conducted with the second year students at the University of Kragujevac, Serbia, with two groups of students: the experimental and the control one.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computer Software, Mathematics Education, Calculus
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Yang, Xiujie; Yu, Xiao – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Mental rotation is positively related to arithmetic ability; however, the mechanism underlying this relationship remains unclear. The possible roles of working memory, place-value concept, and number line estimation in the correlation between mental rotation and whole-number computation were investigated. One hundred and fifty-five first-grade…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visualization, Arithmetic, Short Term Memory
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