Both cognitive and educational psychology literature strive to investigate human category
and concept learning. However, both literatures focus on different phenomena and often use …

Spatial skills are an important component of success in science, technology, engineering,
and math (STEM) fields. A majority of what we know about spatial skills today is a result of …

The construct of active learning permeates undergraduate education in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM), but despite its prevalence, the construct means …

In this review, I summarize what we know about the development of sex‐related differences
in spatial skills, their potential malleability, and their possible causes. Current evidence …

Spatial intelligence concerns the locations of objects, their shapes, their relations, and the
paths they take as they move. Recognition of spatial skills enriches the traditional …

This article describes the initial implementation of an innovative program for elementary-age
children involving origami and pop-up paper engineering to promote visuospatial thinking …

Mental rotation and mental folding, two widely used measures of spatial ability, both require
the dynamic spatial transformation of objects with respect to their internal spatial structure …

[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Astronomy Education Research.] Multiple
studies show that spatial thinking skills contribute to students' performance in science …

Spatial thinking is central to many scientific domains and professions spatial ability predicts
success and participation in science. However spatial thinking is not is not emphasized in …

Spatial reasoning, the ability to mentally represent and transform objects and their relations,
is considered so closely connected to mathematics that there is no longer a question of …