Spatial skills in undergraduate students—Influence of gender, motivation, academic training, and childhood play

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Confirmatory factor analysis of self-evaluation spatial thinking skills (SESS) measurement model

“…For example [9] on their study commend that, in order for students to conceptualize space, understand representations, and reason spatially, they must possess the appropriate spatial skills. Similarly, as noted recently by [15], [16] extracurricular activities appear to develop spatial skills throughout students' lives therefore they suggest a systematic informal training opportunity for students. This would facilitate their spatial reasoning abilities and hence improve their thinking skills in general.…”

Reasoning and Reading in Adults. A New Reasoning Task for Detecting the Visual Impendance Effect

“…In contrast, other spatial cognition tasks have demonstrated differences by sex, particularly in mental rotation (see Uttal et al, 2013), with better performance by males, while females performed better in verbal abilities (see Scheiber, Reynolds, Hajovsky, & Kaufman, 2015). Some of these differences have been attributed to the use of different strategies of resolution (see Gold et al, 2018). Participants' reports in the present study did not allow for the detection of a differential use of strategies.…”

Out-of-School Learning to Achieve the Spatial Perception Skills: A Case Study

“…The use of maps, graphics, diagrams, spheres, map interpretation and map drawing for developing the spatial perception skills in these researches (Yazıcı, 2006; Şengül, Bircan and Safran 2013), animation and use of digital maps (Aktürk, Yazıcı and Bulut 2013), animation and digital maps (Aktürk, 2012), mind map (Taş, 2008;Kan, 2012), aerial photographs (Öcal, 2009), Geographic Information System (GIS) (Demirci ve Karaburun 2011;Milson and Earle 2008), Use of google earth (Öğütveren, 2014), virtual land trips (Çalışkan, 2011), activities outside the classroom (Altın and Demirtaş, 2009), historical places (Çulha, 2006) and spatial skills training (Özdemir, 2011) the effects of methods, techniques, activities and materials were examined and These methods / techniques, materials and activities were found to improve students' perception of place skills. Gold and et al (2018) suggest that spatial thinking is more advanced in men because of their playing computer games associated with structure and sports. Ishikawa (2016) states that students' ability to thematic map reading and understand the conceptual terms of maps varies depending on their spatial visualization abilities.…”