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ERIC Number: EJ1490330
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Nov
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1751-2271
EISSN: EISSN-1751-228X
Available Date: 2025-09-17
Pre-Service Teachers' Views about Spatial Skills and Associations with Their Own Spatial Skills, Emotions, and Confidence
Wenke Möhring1; Nora S. Newcombe2
Mind, Brain, and Education, v19 n4 p219-231 2025
In the present study, we explored whether future teachers considered spatial skills to be built up slowly and incrementally (incremental view) or considered spatial skills to be an innate, static aptitude (entity view). We also examined whether these views were associated with personal spatial skills, confidence in spatial problem-solving, or emotions. Participants (N = 156) solved spatial problems, rated their confidence and emotions (anxiety, enjoyment), and indicated their views about spatial skills. Results showed that, on average, future teachers favored an incremental view. At the same time, views varied considerably, and some pre-service teachers considered spatial skills to be innate and unmodifiable. Incremental spatial views were positively related to personal spatial skills, confidence in spatial problem-solving, and teaching enjoyment in math, but not to anxiety. Our results highlight a need to explicitly foster incremental views in pre-service teachers.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Germany
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of Educational and Health Psychology, University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany; 2Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA