The Spatial Thinking Workbook: A Research-Validated Spatial Skills Curriculum for Geology Majors
The Spatial Thinking Workbook: A Research-Validated Spatial Skills Curriculum for Geology Majors
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空间思维手册：经研究验证的地质专业空间技能课程
DOI：
10.5408/16-210.1
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发表时间：
2017
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通讯作者：
I. Resnick
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作者：
Carol J. Ormand;T. Shipley;B. Tikoff;B. Dutrow;L. Goodwin;T. Hickson;K. Atit;K. Gagnier;I. Resnick
空间可视化是理解各种尺度地质特征的必要前提，如矿物的原子结构、复杂断层系统的几何形状或沉积矿床的构造。本科地球科学专业为高级课程带来了一系列空间技能水平。幸运的是，空间思维会随着练习而提高，学生也会从有意的训练中受益。最近对空间思维的认知科学研究中出现了几种有前途的教学策略：手势、预测性素描和比较，包括类比和对齐。传统上，地球科学教育工作者在他们的教学中融入了许多这些工具，尽管并不总是有意识地、有意地、以最有效的方式。我们的研究团队由地球科学家和认知心理学家组成，他们合作开发了矿物学、构造地质学、沉积学和地层学课程的教材，有意和有目的地结合了这些策略，帮助学生理解这些课程中具有空间挑战性的概念和技能。这24个学习活动共同组成了《空间思维练习册》（http://serc.carleton.edu/spatialworkbook/index.html）。一套评估工具以及嵌入式评估的测试前和测试后的收益表明，这些课程材料提高了学生的空间思维技能，并加强了他们解决具有空间成分的地质问题的能力。
ABSTRACT Spatial visualization is an essential prerequisite for understanding geological features at all scales, such as the atomic structures of minerals, the geometry of a complex fault system, or the architecture of sedimentary deposits. Undergraduate geoscience majors bring a range of spatial skill levels to upper-level courses. Fortunately, spatial thinking improves with practice, and students benefit from intentional training. Several promising teaching strategies have emerged from recent cognitive science research into spatial thinking: gesturing, predictive sketching, and comparison, including analogy and alignment. Geoscience educators have traditionally incorporated many of these tools in their teaching, though not always consciously, intentionally, and in the most effective ways. Our research team, composed of geoscientists and cognitive psychologists, has collaborated to develop curricular materials for mineralogy, structural geology, and sedimentology and stratigraphy courses that incorporate these strategies intentionally and purposefully, supporting student understanding of the spatially challenging concepts and skills in these courses. Collectively, these two dozen learning activities comprise the Spatial Thinking Workbook (http://serc.carleton.edu/spatialworkbook/index.html). Pre- to posttest gains on a suite of assessment instruments, as well as embedded assessments, show that these curricular materials boost students' spatial thinking skills and strengthen their ability to solve geological problems with a spatial component.
影响因子：
3.9
作者：
Goldin-Meadow, Susan
通讯作者：
Goldin-Meadow, Susan
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4.1
作者：
Broaders, Sara C.;Cook, Susan Wagner;Goldin-Meadow, Susan
通讯作者：
Goldin-Meadow, Susan
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3
作者：
Gagnier, Kristin M.;Atit, Kinnari;Shipley, Thomas F.
通讯作者：
Shipley, Thomas F.