Spatial Ability: A Neglected Dimension In Talent Searches For Intellectually Precocious Youth

By R. Webb, David Lubinski, C. Benbow. 2007

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Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Identifying Academically Gifted English-Language Learners Using Nonverbal Tests (2008, background): “Webb, Lubinski, and Benbow (2007) argue that in addition to verbal and quantitative reasoning, spatial ability should also routinely be assessed in talent searches.”
Evaluating Geoscience Students' Spatial Thinking Skills in a Multi-Institutional Classroom Study (2014, background): “Analyses of large-scale data sets of spatial skills measured in high school show that performance on standardized psychometric measures of spatial skills predicts success in STEM outcomes: success in STEM majors in college and professional entry into a STEM field (Shea et al., 2001; Wai et al., 2009”
A Heuristic Framework of Spatial Ability: a Review and Synthesis of Spatial Factor Literature to Support its Translation into STEM Education (2018, unknown): “Subsequently, Webb et al. (2007), with a more general sample of 1060 adolescents (top 3% in ability), provided evidence corroborating the results of Shea et al. (2001).”
Think3d!: Training Spatial Thinking Fundamental to STEM Education (2013, unknown): “…Coleman & Gotch, 1998; Halpern, Benbow, et al., 2007; Hegarty et al., 2010; Jones & Burnett, 2008; Keehner et al., 2004; Kozhevnikov et al., 2007; Mathewson, 1999, 2005; Orion et al., 1997; Peters et al., 1995; Shea et al., 2001; Sorby, 2001; Wai et al., 2009; Webb et al., 2007; Wu & Shah, 2004).”
Sex differences in the right tail of cognitive abilities: A 30 year examination (2010, background): “…(one score higher than the others; Ceci et al., 2009; Halpern et al., 2007; Park, Lubinski, & Benbow, 2007), or relatively higher spatial ability (Wai, Lubinski, & Benbow, 2009; Webb, Lubinski, & Benbow,2007),thatmakethemmorelikelytopursueacareerin STEM where such abilities are critical components.”
From Terman to Today (2016, background): “…importantly, incremental validity of specific abilities and preferences (interests and values) relative to each other in the prediction of educational and occupational outcomes—over 5, 10, and 20 years (Achter, Lubinski, Benbow, & Eftekhari-Sanjani, 1999; Wai et al., 2005; Webb et al., 2002, 2007).”
Women's underrepresentation in science: sociocultural and biological considerations. (2009, background): “Relatedly, Webb, Lubinski, and Benbow (2007) found that more than half of the top 1% of spatially gifted students are not identified when screening is conditioned on the top 1% of math ability.”
Spatial ability and STEM: A sleeping giant for talent identification and development (2010, background): “And these in turn are likely to have differential implications for commitment to developing expertise and persistence in STEM (Ackerman, 1996; Ackerman & Heggestad, 1997; Schmidt, Lubinski, & Benbow, 1998; Webb et al., 2007).”
Spatial ability for STEM domains: Aligning over 50 years of cumulative psychological knowledge solidifies its importance. (2009, background): “In addition, to solidify the length of time that spatial ability has been known to play a consistent role in the development of STEM expertise, we decided to try to bridge the gap between the studies reviewed in Super and Bachrach’s (1957) NSF report and our contemporary findings from talent search ”