The Development of Spatial Skills Through Interventions Involving Block Building Activities

By B. Casey, Nicole Andrews, H. Schindler, J. Kersh, Alexandra Samper, Juanita V. Copley. 2008

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Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Geography, Planning and Development

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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).”
Young girls’ arithmetic and spatial skills: The distal and proximal roles of family socioeconomics and home learning experiences (2012, methodology): “(See Casey et al., 2008 for detail on procedures and stimuli for this task.)”
Spatial Training Improves Children's Mathematics Ability (2014, background): “…to have demonstrated transfer from training to novel items or tasks (e.g., DeLisi & Cammarano, 1996; Terlecki, Newcombe, & Little, 2008; Wallace & Hofelich, 1992), many have failed to obtain such evidence (B. M. Casey et al., 2008; Kail, 1986; Kail & Park, 1990; Morgan, Bartram, & Clarke, 1984).”
Spatial Skills as a Predictor of First Grade Girls' Use of Higher Level Arithmetic Strategies. (2013, background): “Within 10 s, the item was scored as correct if the first figure was in the same orientation as the second figure, or incorrect if the first figure was not in the same orientation as the secondfigure (see Casey et al., 2008 for detail on procedures and stimuli for this task).”
Block Talk: Spatial Language During Block Play (2011, background): “Most recently, in an experimental study that incorporated a story-telling context, Casey et al. (2008) concluded that block building interventions have an impact on spatial visualization and block building skills.”
The relationship of teacher–child play interactions to mathematics learning in preschool (2016, background): “areas of math, addressed by these teachers in play, are considered among the most important domains to be emphasised in preschool classrooms (Aslan & Arnas, 2007; Aunola, Leskinen, Lerkkanen, & Nurmi, 2009; Battista & Clements, 1996; Casey et al., 2008; Clements & Samara, 2007; Duncan et al., 2007; ”
Training early visuo-spatial abilities: A controlled classroom-based intervention study (2019, background): “2012), tangram games (Chabani & Hommel, 2014), block building (Casey et al., 2008), or a spatial sense intervention promoting the “representation and transformation of spatial information” (Tzuriel & Egozi, 2010, p.”
Gender-Typed Play and Social Abilities in Boys and Girls: Are They Related? (2016, background): “As a result, researchers and educators have attempted to narrow gender gaps in development in spatial abilities by encouraging masculine toy play (Casey et al. 2008).”
Women's underrepresentation in science: sociocultural and biological considerations. (2009, background): “The abovementioned study by Casey et al. (2008) provides evidence of sex differences in three-dimensional rotation ability among 5-yearolds (boys solved 5.39 mental rotations out of 10 vs. 4.08 for girls), and Wolfgang et al. (2001) reported strong correlations between block-playing skill in…”
Enhancing Children's Spatial and Numerical Skills through a Dynamic Spatial Approach to Early Geometry Instruction: Effects of a 32-Week Intervention (2017, background): “Despite widespread calls to place much greater emphasis on early spatial instruction in our schools (e.g., see Newcombe, 2010; NRC, 2006), there are relatively few examples of such efforts (but see Casey et al., 2008 and Clements & Sarama, 2007).”
Understanding the Program Effectiveness of Early Mathematics Interventions for Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Environments: A Meta-Analytic Review (2016, background): “For the 10 studies that reported means and standard deviations for independent groups (Aunio, Hautamaki, & Van Luit, 2005; Casey et al., 2008; Curtis, Okamoto, & Weckbacher, 2009; Dyson, Jordan, & Glutting, 2013; Kidd, Pasnak, Gadzichowski, Ferral-Like, & Gallington, 2008; Monahan, 2007; Pasnak, 200”
Recent research on geometry education: an ICME-13 survey team report (2016, background): “, Casey et al. 2008) and the large randomised study on technology interventions using Building Blocks (Clements, Sarama, Spitler, Lange & Wolfe 2011). Furthermore, spatial experiences in childhood continue to show differences in adulthood in terms of visuospatial reasoning (Doyle, Voyer & Cherney 20”