Children’s Play Preferences, Construction Play with Blocks, and Visual-spatial Skills: Are they Related?

By Yvonne M. Caldera, A. Culp, M. O'brien, R. Truglio, Mildred M. Alvarez, A. Huston. 1999

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• CausalWorld: A Robotic Manipulation Benchmark for Causal Structure and Transfer Learning (2020, background): “A remarkable skill that humans learn to master relatively early on in their life is building complex structures using their spatial-reasoning and dexterous manipulation abilities (Casey et al., 2008; Caldera et al., 1999; Kamii et al., 2004).”
• Spatial Skills as a Predictor of First Grade Girls' Use of Higher Level Arithmetic Strategies. (2013, methodology): “The Block Design subtest of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) (Wechsler, 2003) is designed for 6- to 12-year-olds and, is one of the most frequently used instruments for assessing children's spatial skills (Caldera et al., 1999; Connor & Serbin, 1977, Serbin & Con”
• Young girls’ arithmetic and spatial skills: The distal and proximal roles of family socioeconomics and home learning experiences (2012, methodology): “The Block Design subtest of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for hildren-Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) (Wechsler, 2003) was selected as measure because it is one of the most frequently used instruments or assessing children’s spatial skills (Caldera et al., 1999; Serbin & onnor, 1977, 1979).”
• Block Talk: Spatial Language During Block Play (2011, background): “Blocks have been frequently mentioned as contributing to the development of spatial skills (Brosnan, 1998; Caldera et al., 1999; Ginsburg, 2007; Ness & Farenga, 2007).”
• Gender Differences in Spatial Ability: Implications for STEM Education and Approaches to Reducing the Gender Gap for Parents and Educators (2017, background): “Age-appropriate toy robots that children can change into vehicles and back provides practice in learning complex multi-step transformations like that involved with spatial visualization, while a wealth of literature has shown that construction blocks provide opportunities to practise spatial percept”
• The Development of Spatial Skills Through Interventions Involving Block Building Activities (2008, methodology): “There is some evidence that early block building skills are related to spatial skills (Brosnan, 1998; Caldera et al., 1999), and that they correlate with later math achievement (Wolfgang, Stannard, & Jones, 2001).”