空间技能对解决问题的节性和解决方案质量的影响在中年儿童时期
Jonas Schäfer1, Timo Reuter2, Miriam Leuchter2
1Department of Pedagogical Psychology and Health Psychology, University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany.
The British journal of developmental psychology
|May 28, 2025
概括
儿童强大的空间技能与解决问题任务的更高质量和更有效的解决方案有关. 这凸显了空间能力对STEM学习的重要性.
科学领域:
- 认知发展 认知发展
- 在STEM教育方面.
背景情况:
- 空间技能对于STEM解决问题至关重要,在中年发展.
- 空间技能如何影响解决问题的表现的关键方面需要进一步调查.
研究的目的:
- 检查空间技能对儿童解决问题的质量和精益求精的贡献.
- 了解特定空间能力与解决问题的结果之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 参与的样本是478名年龄在6~8岁的儿童.
- 参与者完成了评估心理旋转,视觉空间记忆和基于轮的解决问题的任务.
- 使用统计分析,将空间技能与解决方案质量和节相关联.
主要成果:
- 空间技能显著预测了解决问题的任务中更高的解决质量.
- 空间技能也与解决问题的节性 (操作数量减少) 的增加有关.
- 年龄与空间技能和节相关,但不是解决方案质量.
结论:
- 空间技能对于儿童STEM解决问题的多个方面至关重要.
- 旨在提高空间能力的干预措施可以提高儿童的STEM解决问题的能力.
- 进一步的研究应该探索将空间技能与高效问题解决策略联系起来的机制.
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