Enhancing spatial skills of preschoolers from under‐resourced backgrounds: A comparison of digital app vs. concrete materials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinne A. Bower ◽  
Laura Zimmermann ◽  
Brian N. Verdine ◽  
Calla Pritulsky ◽  
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Skills ◽  
Concrete Materials

Cyclic Elasto-viscoplastic Model for Asphalt Concrete Materials

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-255
Author(s):  
Dang-Truc Nguyen ◽  
Boumediene Nedjar ◽  
Philippe Philippe
Keyword(s):  
Asphalt Concrete ◽  
Viscoplastic Model ◽  
Concrete Materials

scholarly journals Bridging the gap: blending spatial skills instruction into a technology teacher preparation programme

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diarmaid Lane ◽  
Sheryl Sorby
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Future Research ◽  
First Year ◽  
Spatial Skills ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Base Level ◽  
Technology Teacher ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Impact

AbstractIn recent years, there has been a surge in research in spatial thinking across the international community. We now know that spatial skills are malleable and that they are linked to success across multiple disciplines, most notably Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). While spatial skills have been examined by cognitive scientists in laboratory environments for decades, current research is examining how these skills can be developed in field-based environments. In this paper, we present findings from a study within a Technology Teacher preparation programme where we examined first-year students’ spatial skills on entry to university. We explain why it was necessary to embed a spatial skills intervention into Year 1 of the programme and we describe the impact that this had on students’ spatial scores and on academic performance. The findings from our study highlight a consistent gender gap in spatial scores at the start of the first-year with female students entering the Technology Teacher preparation programme at a lower base level than male students. We describe how we integrated spatial development activities into an existing course and how an improvement in spatial scores and overall course performance was observed. The paper concludes by discussing the long-term sustainability of integrating spatial interventions within teacher preparation programmes while also highlighting the importance of future research to examine spatial skills as a fundamental component of technological capability.

scholarly journals Numerical study of shrinkage and heating induced cracking in concrete materials and influence of inclusion stiffness with Peridynamics method

2021 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 103998
Author(s):  
Yudan Jin ◽  
Ling Li ◽  
Yun Jia ◽  
Jianfu Shao ◽  
Thomas Rougelot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Study ◽  
Concrete Materials

Minecraft as a Block Building Approach for Developing Spatial Skills

2021 ◽  
pp. 100427
Author(s):  
C.J. Carbonell-Carrera ◽  
A. Jaeger ◽  
J.L. Saorín ◽  
D. Melián ◽  
J. Cantero
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Skills
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