Educating Spatial Thinking for STEM Success

Mary Hegarty; David Uttal; Mike Stieff; Tom Lowrie; Stella Vosniadou

Educating Spatial Thinking for STEM Success

Mary Hegarty
, David Uttal
, Mike Stieff
, Tom Lowrie
, Stella Vosniadou

Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

In recent years there has been new recognition of the importance of spatial thinking in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, in part because of evidence that spatial ability predicts success and persistence in STEM (Wai, Lubinski & Benbow, 2009), but is not fostered in our educational systems (National Research Council, 2006). Based on this evidence, current approaches aim to increase science achievement by training the types of general spatial skills measured by spatial ability tests. However, although there is considerable evidence that these spatial skills can be trained (Uttal, et al., 2013), there has been little evidence to date that training of general spatial skills transfers to success in STEM disciplines (Stieff & Uttal, 2015)

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Subtitle of host publication	Computational Foundations of Cognition
Publisher	The Cognitive Science Society
Pages	27-28
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	9780991196760
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, CogSci 2017 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 26 Jul 2017 → 29 Jul 2017

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Conference	39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, CogSci 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	26/07/17 → 29/07/17

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Hegarty, M, Uttal, D, Stieff, M, Lowrie, T & Vosniadou, S 2017, Educating Spatial Thinking for STEM Success. in CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition. The Cognitive Science Society, pp. 27-28, 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, CogSci 2017, London, United Kingdom, 26/07/17. <https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7zx8q0jm>

Educating Spatial Thinking for STEM Success. / Hegarty, Mary; Uttal, David; Stieff, Mike et al.
CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition. The Cognitive Science Society, 2017. p. 27-28.

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