Spatial thinking in the geosciences and cognitive sciences: A cross-disciplinary look at the intersection of the two fields
By Kim A. Kastens, Toru Ishikawa. 2006
157 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Geography, Planning and Development
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6007b002826fffffe66bd35c9bc5b9fd6ab7c1b1
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In Automotive Engineering
- Mary Hegarty
- David H. Uttal
- Nora S. Newcombe
- Thomas F. Shipley
- E. Horsman
- S. Titus
- David I Miller
- Andrew T. Stull
In Geography, Planning and Development
- Mary Hegarty
- David H. Uttal
- Nora S. Newcombe
- E. Horsman
- S. Titus
- Thomas F. Shipley
- Daniel R. Montello
- Niall Seery
Citations in the corpus
- Evaluating Geoscience Students' Spatial Thinking Skills in a Multi-Institutional Classroom Study (2014, background): “Only a small body of work in cognitive science of education has studied any of the other geoscience-relevant spatial skills (e.g., Kastens and Ishikawa, 2006).”
- Characterizing and Improving Spatial Visualization Skills (2009, background): “(For an alternate approach, see Kastens and Ishikawa (2006) where geologic tasks are subdivided and the cognitive skills required for each task are discussed.)”
- Exploring and Enhancing Spatial Thinking (2013, background): “(See Kastens & Ishikawa, 2006, for a discussion of the role of spatial thinking in geoscience.)”
- Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering. (2012, background): “As another example, geoscientists identified spatial reasoning as a key area of research for geoscience education research and initiated collaborative work with cognitive scientists (Kastens and Ishikawa, 2006; Manduca, Mogk, and Stillings, 2004; National Research Council, 2006).”
- Thinking About Spatial Thinking: New Typology, New Assessments (2015, background): “Kastens and Ishikawa (2006) proposed an analysis of the nature of spatial thinking in the geosciences.”
- Representational Translation With Concrete Models in Organic Chemistry (2012, background): “…in practice, although novices often have difficulty mastering the use of representations in scientific disciplines, such as biology, physics, chemistry, geosciences, and mathematics (Ishikawa & Kastens, 2004; Kastens & Ishikawa, 2006; Kozma, 2003; Novick & Catley, 2007; Schoenfeld, 1992).”