Spatial thinking in STEM learning: Training a new generation of researchers to increase enrolment and gender balance in STEM learning by addressing deficits in spatial ability among children in Europe

Informations projet

SellSTEM

N° de convention de subvention: 956124

DOI

10.3030/956124

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 13 Août 2020

Date de début 1 Janvier 2021

Date de fin 31 Decembre 2024

Financé au titre de

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coût total

€ 4 037 154,48

Contribution de l’UE

€ 4 037 154,48

Coordonné par

TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY DUBLIN
Ireland

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Livrables

Documents, reports (12)

Teachers manual

Guide to testing spatial ability among primary school children for use by teachers

Barriers to spatial teaching

Preliminary analysis of barriers to raising spatial ability levels of children in Europe

Review of teacher training

Summary and analysis of teacher training to raise spatial ability levels in the classroom

Spatial tests

Preliminary review and listing of spatial ability tests suitable for each age group in primary school

Spatial test data

Preliminary analysis of cognitive and affective data collected from children in Europe

Best practice in curriculum design

Best practice in curriculum design to promote spatial ability development to prepare children, boys and girls, for STEM learning

Evaluation of training

Evaluation of impact of integrated and separate spatial ability training and its relation to individual differences in working memory

Policy recommendations

Policy recommendations for primary school to raise spatial ability of children in Europe beyond existing levels

Teacher training guide

Guide to training teachers to raise spatial ability levels of children in the classroom

Makerspace guide

Guide for coaches on role of and potential for spatial ability in maker education

Guide to development for teachers

Guide to spatial ability development for use by teachers in primary school

Review of spatial training

Preliminary analysis of methods to develop spatial ability among children

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

ORDP

Regarding the digital research data generated in the action:(a) where possible format data to be FAIR compliant - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Resusable and ensure the data will be as open as possible, as closed as necessary(b) deposit the data in a research data repository (Arrow@TU Dubln is available for this) so third parties can access, mine, exploit, reproduce and disseminate — free of charge for any user — the following:(i) the data, including associated metadata, needed to validate the results presented inscientific publications, as soon as possible;(ii) other data, including associated metadata, as specified and within the deadlines laid down in the ‘data management plan’ (see Annex 1);(c) provide information — via the repository — about tools and instruments at the disposal of the beneficiaries and necessary for validating the results (and — where possible — provide the tools and instruments themselves; open source tools will be used where possible but all associated information will be provided so that the research can be reproduced)

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

SellSTEM website

SellSTEM website with home page research WP pages and navigation bar

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Professional Development for Primary School Teachers Intended to Promote Students’ Spatial Ability

Auteurs: Ergi Bufasi, Ildze Cakane, Inese Dudareva, Dace Namsone
Publié dans: International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), Numéro 14, 2024, Page(s) 130-144, ISSN 2192-4880
Éditeur: International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)
DOI: 10.3991/ijep.v14i2.43673

Fostering spatial ability development in and for authentic STEM learning

Auteurs: Caiwei Zhu, Chloe Oi-Ying Leung, Eleni Lagoudaki, Mariana Velho, Natalia Segura-Caballero, Dietsje Jolles, Gavin Duffy, Günter Maresch, Marianna Pagkratidou, Remke Klapwijk
Publié dans: Frontiers in Education, Numéro 8, 2023, ISSN 2504-284X
Éditeur: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1138607

Making pedagogy for spatial literacy: a case study of an origami workshop in an after-school makerspace

Auteurs: WESTERHOF, M. B.; O’KANE, C.; DUFFY, G.
Publié dans: Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 2024, ISSN 2040-8633
Éditeur: Liverpool John Moores University

Investigating the role of spatial thinking in children’s design ideation through an open-ended design-by-analogy challenge

Auteurs: Caiwei Zhu, Remke Klapwijk, Miroslava Silva-Ordaz, Jeroen Spandaw, Marc J. de Vries
Publié dans: International Journal of Technology and Design Education, Numéro 34, 2024, Page(s) 1733-1762, ISSN 0957-7572
Éditeur: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10798-024-09877-7

Under My Skin: Reducing Bias in STEM through New Approaches to Assessment of Spatial Abilities Considering the Role of Emotional Regulation

Auteurs: Michelle Lennon-Maslin, Claudia Michaela Quaiser-Pohl, Vera Ruthsatz, Mirko Saunders
Publié dans: Social Sciences, Numéro 12, 2023, Page(s) 356, ISSN 2076-0760
Éditeur: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/socsci12060356

“It’s Different for Girls!” The Role of Anxiety, Physiological Arousal, and Subject Preferences in Primary School Children’s Math and Mental Rotation Performance

Auteurs: Michelle Lennon-Maslin, Claudia Michaela Quaiser-Pohl
Publié dans: Behavioral Sciences, Numéro 14, 2024, Page(s) 809, ISSN 2076-328X
Éditeur: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/bs14090809

Cognitive and embodied mapping of data: an examination of children’s spatial thinking in data physicalization

Auteurs: Caiwei Zhu, Remke Klapwijk, Miroslava Silva-Ordaz, Jeroen Spandaw, Marc J. de Vries
Publié dans: Frontiers in Education, Numéro 8, 2023, ISSN 2504-284X
Éditeur: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1308117

Factors Associated with STEM Career Expectations of Greek 15-Year-Old Students

Auteurs: Marianna Pagkratidou, Michalis P. Michaelides, Vasiliki Pitsia, Anastasios Karakolidis
Publié dans: Journal for STEM Education Research, Numéro 8, 2025, Page(s) 59-87, ISSN 2520-8705
Éditeur: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s41979-024-00124-1

Addressing the complexity of spatial teaching: a narrative review of barriers and enablers

Auteurs: Ergi Bufasi, Ting Jun Lin, Ursa Benedicic, Marten Westerhof, Rohit Mishra, Dace Namsone, Inese Dudareva, Sheryl Sorby, Lena Gumaelius, Remke M. Klapwijk, Jeroen Spandaw, Brian Bowe, Colm O'Kane, Gavin Duffy, Marianna Pagkratidou, Jeffrey Buckley
Publié dans: Frontiers in Education, Numéro 9, 2024, ISSN 2504-284X
Éditeur: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1306189

Lesson Study as a Professional Development Model for Teaching Spatial Ability in Primary STEM

Auteurs: Ergi Bufasi, Ildze Čakāne, Karlis Greitans, Inese Dudareva, Dace Namsone
Publié dans: Education Sciences, Numéro 14, 2024, Page(s) 512, ISSN 2227-7102
Éditeur: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/educsci14050512

The potential for spatial ability development through the Swedish technology and craft compulsory curricula

Auteurs: Ting Jun Lin, Jeffrey Buckley, Lena Gumaelius, Ernest Ampadu
Publié dans: International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024, ISSN 0957-7572
Éditeur: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10798-024-09958-7

Beyond numbers: the role of mathematics self-concept and spatial anxiety in shaping mental rotation performance and STEM preferences in primary education

Auteurs: Michelle Lennon-Maslin, Claudia Quaiser-Pohl, Lea-Christin Wickord
Publié dans: Frontiers in Education, Numéro 9, 2024, ISSN 2504-284X
Éditeur: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1300598

Gender stereotypes in preschoolers’ mental rotation

Auteurs: W. Miro Ebert, Leonardo Jost, Petra Jansen
Publié dans: Frontiers in Psychology, Numéro 15, 2024, ISSN 1664-1078
Éditeur: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1284314

Locating the potential development of spatial ability in the Swedish national curriculum

Auteurs: Ting Jun Lin, Jeffrey Buckley, Lena Gumaelius, Ernest Ampadu
Publié dans: Heliyon, Numéro 10, 2025, Page(s) e38356, ISSN 2405-8440
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e38356

Visual working memory as the substrate for mental rotation: A replication

Auteurs: W. Miro Ebert, Leonardo Jost, Petra Jansen, Biljana Stevanovski, Daniel Voyer
Publié dans: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024, ISSN 1069-9384
Éditeur: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-024-02602-4

Conference proceedings (15)

Thinking Spatially About Data: A Developing Framework to Understand Children's Spatial Reasoning in Data Physicalization

Auteurs: Caiwei Zhu, Remke Klapwijk
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2024, Page(s) 537-542
Éditeur: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3585088.3593891

‘Bear Hunt’ Sparks Change: Using Lesson Study to Integrate Spatial Thinking in Early Childhood Design Education

Auteurs: Rohit Mishra, Remke M. Klapwijk
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: Springer

Gender in Teacher-Student Interactions: Another Factor in Spatial Ability Development and STEM Affiliation

Auteurs: Gamarra Estefania, Tenbrink Thora & Mills Debra
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: Springer

The influence of gender stereotypes on women’s spatial abilities and their underrepresentation in the field of engineering

Auteurs: Malkogeorgou, Styliani Duffy, Gavin
Publié dans: 2022
Éditeur: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Developing spatial literacy through designing origami: advancing maker education pedagogy with maker études

Auteurs: Westerhof, M. B., O’Kane, C., & Duffy, G.
Publié dans: The 40th International Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Technology Conference Proceedings, 2023
Éditeur: Liverpool John Moores University,

The phantom menace: spatial abilities and STEM outreach to fight underrepresentation in STEM

Auteurs: Velho, Mariana Dorran, David Duffy, Gavin
Publié dans: 2022
Éditeur: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

An ongoing spatial intervention project in irish secondary schools for improved engineering education

Auteurs: Benedičič, Urša Duffy, Gavin Sorby, Sheryl
Publié dans: 2022
Éditeur: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Promoting Engineering To K12 Students Through Spatially Challenging Making And Outreach Activities

Auteurs: Duffy, G., Westerhoff, M., Keogh, D., & O'Kane, C.
Publié dans: 2023
Éditeur: 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)

Mindset Matters: The Role of Mathematics Self-concept and Age in Mental Rotation Performance Among Primary School Children

Auteurs: Michelle Lennon-Maslin & Claudia Quaiser-Pohl
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: Springer

The Spatial Aspect of Designing: Opportunities, Challenges, and Conjectures on Engaging Pupils in Spatial Thinking Through Design Education

Auteurs: Caiwei Zhu & Remke Klapwijk
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: Springer

THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF STIMULI ON GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MENTAL ROTATION TASKS

Auteurs: Natalia Segura Caballero, Günter Maresch
Publié dans: ICERI Proceedings, ICERI2023 Proceedings, Numéro 1, 2023, Page(s) 1486-1493
Éditeur: IATED
DOI: 10.21125/iceri.2023.0469

Assessing pupils’ creative design ideas and prototypes using comparative judgment

Auteurs: Caiwei Zhu and Remke Klapwijk
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: 41st Pupils' Attitudes Towards Technology (PATT) Education Research Conference

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN SPATIAL THINKING ONLINE TRAINING

Auteurs: Natalia Segura Caballero, Günter Maresch
Publié dans: ICERI Proceedings, ICERI2022 Proceedings, Numéro 1, 2023, Page(s) 802-808
Éditeur: IATED
DOI: 10.21125/iceri.2022.0249

IMPROVED ARITHMETIC PERFORMANCE WHEN DIGITALLY TRAINING SPATIAL ABILITIES DURING THE MATHEMATICS CLASS

Auteurs: Lagoudaki, E., Maresch, G., & Pagkratidou, M.
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: 5th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME15)

Situating spatial ability development in the Craft and Technology curricula of Swedish compulsory education

Auteurs: LIN, T.-J., Buckley, J., Gumaelius, L., & Ampadu, E.
Publié dans: The 40th International Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Technology Conference Proceedings, 2023
Éditeur: Liverpool Hope Moore University

Book chapters (1)

The Spatial Aspect of Designing: Opportunities, Challenges, and Conjectures on Engaging Pupils in Spatial Thinking Through Design Education

Auteurs: Caiwei Zhu, Remke Klapwijk
Publié dans: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Spatial Cognition XIII, 2024, Page(s) 97-113
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63115-3_7