PROBING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROCESS OF SPATIAL PROBLEMS SOLVING AND SCIENCE LEARNING: AN EYE TRACKING APPROACH

International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 579-603

  Chen, Yi Chun ^a   Yang, Fang Ying ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3D mental rotation; eye movements; eye tracking; science learning; spatial ability; spatial problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902008748     PISSN: 15710068     EISSN: 15731774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10763-013-9504-y     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Blazhenkova, O. & Kozhevnikov, M. (2010). Visual-object ability: A new dimension of non-verbal intelligence. Cognition, 117(3), 276-301.
2. Bodner, G. M., & Guay, R. B. (1997). The purdue visualization of rotation test. The Chemical Educator, 2(4).
3. Carroll, J. B. (1993). Human cognitive abilities: a survey of factor-analytic studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Eliot, J., & Smith, I. M. (1983). An international directory of spatial tests. Windsor, England: NFER/Nelson; and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.
5. French, J. W. (1951). The description of aptitude and achievement tests in terms of rotated factors. Psychometric Monographs, No. 5.
6. Gagné, E. D., Yekovich, C. W. & Yekovich, F. R. (1993). The cognitive psychology of school learning (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Harper-Collins.
7. Guilford, J. P. & Lacey, J. I. (1947). Printed classification tests, A. A. F. Aviation Psychological Progress Research Report, No. 5. Washington: Government Printing Office.
8. Hegarty, M. (2010). Components of spatial intelligence. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 52, 265-297.
9. Hegarty, M. & Just, M. A. (1993). Constructing mental models of machines from text and diagrams. Journal of memory and language, 32(6), 717-742.
10. Hegarty, M., Richardson, A. E., Montello, D. R., Lovelace, K. & Subbiah, I. (2002). Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability. Intelligence, 30(5), 425-447.
11. Hegarty, M. & Waller, D. (2006). Individual differences in spatial abilities. In P. Shah & A. Miyake (Eds.). Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking. (pp. 121-169). Cambridge University Press.
12. Höffler, T. N. (2010). Spatial ability: Its influence on learning with visualizations-a meta-analytic review. Educational psychology review, 22(3), 245-269.
13. Höffler, T. N. & Leutner, D. (2011). The role of spatial ability in learning from instructional animations-Evidence for an ability-as-compensator hypothesis. Computers in human behavior, 27(1), 209-216.
14. Just, M. A. & Carpenter, P. A. (1985). Cognitive coordinate systems: Accounts of mental rotation and individual differences in spatial ability. Psychological Review, 92, 137-172.
15. Kyllonen, P. C., Lohman, D. F. & Woltz, D. J. (1984). Componential modeling of alternative strategies for performing spatial tasks. Journal of Educational Psychology, 6, 1325-1345.
16. Lohman, D. F. (1979). Spatial ability: A review and reanalysis of the correlational literature (Tech. Rep. No. 8). Stanford, CA: Stanford University School of Education.
17. Lohman, D. F., Pellegrino, J. W., Alderton, D. L., & Regian, J. W. (1987). Dimensions and components of individual differences in spatial abilities. In S. H. Irvine & S. E. Newstead (Eds.), Intelligence and cognition: Contemporary frames of reference (pp. 253-312). Springer Netherlands.
18. Mathewson, J. H. (1999). Visual-spatial thinking: an aspect of science overlooked by educators. Science Education, 83(1), 33-54.
19. Michael, W. B., Guilford, J. P., Fruchter, B. & Zimmerman, W. S. (1957). The description of spatial-visualization abilities. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 17, 185-199.
20. Mumaw, R. J., Pellegrino, J. W., Kail, R. V. & Carter, P. (1984). Different slopes for different folks: Process analysis of spatial aptitude. Memory & Cognition, 12(5), 515-521.
21. Onyancha, R. M., Derov, M. & Kinsey, B. L. (2009). Improvements in spatial ability as a result of targeted training and computer-aided design software use: Analyses of object geometries and rotation types. Journal of Engineering Education, 98(2), 157-167.
22. Ozcelik, E., Arslan-Ari, I. & Cagiltay, K. (2010). Why does signaling enhance multimedia learning? Evidence from eye movements. Computers in Human Behavior, 26(1), 110-117.
23. Rayner, K. (2009). Eye movements and attention in reading, scene perception, and visual search. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(8), 1457-1506.
24. Rohde, T. E. & Thompson, L. A. (2007). Predicting academic achievement with cognitive ability. Intelligence, 35(1), 83-92.
25. Shepard, R. N. & Metzler, J. (1971). Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects. Science, 171(3972), 701-703.
26. Sternberg, R. J. (2009). Cognitive psychology (5th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.
27. Stieff, M. (2007). Mental rotation and diagrammatic reasoning in science. Learning and Instruction, 17(2), 219-234.
28. Thurstone, L. L. (1950). Some primary abilities in visual thinking. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 94(6), 517-521.
29. Tsai, J. L., Yen, M. H. & Wang, C. A. (2005). Eye movement recording and the application in research of reading Chinese. Research in Applied Psychology, 28, 91-104.
30. Uttal, D. H., & Cohen, C. A. (2012). Spatial thinking and STEM education: When, Why, and How? In B. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 57, pp. 147-181). Oxford: Academic Press.
31. Wai, J., Lubinski, D. & Benbow, C. (2009). Spatial ability for STEM domains: Aligning over 50 years of cumulative psychological knowledge solidifies its importance. Journal of Educational Psychology, 101(4), 817-835.
32. Yang, F. Y., Chang, C. Y., Chien, W. R., Chien, Y. T. & Tseng, Y. H. (2013). Tracking learners' visual attention during a multimedia presentation in a real classroom. Computers & Education, 62, 208-220.
33. Zhang, L. F. (2004). Field-dependence/independence: cognitive style or perceptual ability? - validating against thinking styles and academic achievement. Personality and Individual Differences, 37(6), 1295-1311.
34. Zimmerman, W. S. (1954). Hypotheses concerning the nature of the spatial factors. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 14, 396-400.