The impact of an intervention program on students' spatial reasoning: student engagement through mathematics-enhanced learning activities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Spatial reasoning skill has consistently been found to be malleable. However, there is little research to date on embedding spatial training within learning frameworks. This study evaluated the effects of a classroom-based spatial reasoning intervention on middle school children's spatial reasoning. Participants included 337 students from 15 classrooms across 6 schools with 8 experimental and 7 control classes. The program was designed for grades 3, 4, 5, and 6. The intervention program was delivered within the Experience-Language-Pictorial-Symbolic-Application (ELPSA) framework and was delivered across 10 weeks by classroom teachers, while the control group received standard mathematics instruction.

Results

Children in the experimental classes outperformed the co

SUBMITTER: Lowrie T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6305681 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature