Childhood spatial activities are more predictive of spatial habits of mind than of spatial skills¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Multivariate regression coefficient comparison showed childhood activities predicted habits of mind more strongly than paper folding, while adolescent activity coefficients did not differ across outcomes. → Emily Grossnickle Peterson 2020

Evidence¶

Emily Grossnickle Peterson 2020¶

Emily Grossnickle Peterson, Adam B. Weinberger, David H. Uttal, Bob Kolvoord and Adam E. Green. (2020). Spatial activity participation in childhood and adolescence: consistency and relations to spatial thinking in adolescence. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00239-0

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Using Model 3, the authors compared coefficients across the two jointly regressed outcomes; "childhood activities were more pre- dictive of spatial habits of mind than of paper fold- ing" (F 1, 296 =4 . 1 2 ,p = .04), whereas adolescent activity coefficients did not differ (F 1, 296 = 2.00, p = .16).

"There was a significant difference in the coefficients for childhood activities, indicating that childhood activities were more pre- dictive of spatial habits of mind than of paper fold- ing (F 1, 296 =4 . 1 2 ,p = .04)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Spatial Ability — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Adolescent, but not childhood, spatial activity participation predicts adolescent spatial skills (paper folding) — related
• Childhood, but not adolescent, spatial activity participation predicts adolescents' spatial habits of mind — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Gender moderates the relation between childhood spatial activities and spatial habits of mind, which is stronger for males than females — related
• No cumulative benefit from participating in spatial activities in both childhood and adolescence — related
• Childhood spatial activity participation predicts adolescent spatial activity participation, and this consistency is stronger for females than males — related
• Spatial skills show null bivariate correlations with childhood and adolescent spatial activity participation — related