Thinking About Spatial Thinking: New Typology, New Assessments

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Enhancing Children's Spatial and Numerical Skills through a Dynamic Spatial Approach to Early Geometry Instruction: Effects of a 32-Week Intervention (2017, background): “…with the environment (e.g., navigational skills), this article adheres to a definition of spatial thinking that largely deals with forming and manipulating visual-spatial mental images (see Newcombe & Shipley, 2012 for a fine-grained distinction of the various types of spatial thinking).”
A Heuristic Framework of Spatial Ability: a Review and Synthesis of Spatial Factor Literature to Support its Translation into STEM Education (2018, positive): “…to the nature of the cognitive action whereby mental operations such as mental rotations are considered dynamic based on the movement of stimulus (Newcombe and Shipley 2014) and has proved particularly useful for much educational research demonstrating why frameworks of spatial ability are so…”