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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Spatial thinking"”.
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Spatial Thinking as an Analytical Lens for Bilateral International Development: Lessons from the Harbor Reconstruction Project in Jamestown, Accra
… of Ghana in a widely attended ceremony. The spatial implications of this physical urban infrastructure project across international, national, municipal, and local levels are complex and interrelated. Therefore, this case study is especially relevant at a historical moment when the nature of …
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Geospatial Thinking of Undergraduate Students in Public Universities in the United States
Geospatial thinking and learning are essential components of geography education. The National Research Council’s 2006 report, Learning to Think Spatially, emphasized that people vary with respect to performance on spatial tasks. Geospatial thinking is a subset of spatial thinking in general. …
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The prediction of cognitive ability from sensory/motor performance : examining the role of sensory/motor performance in the Dean-Woodcock Cognitive Neuropsychology Model
… variance. These factors were identified as being thinking ability and processing speed, subcortical functioning, verbal working memory, peripheral processes, tactile kinesthetic thinking (Gtk), visual processing, and simple sensory/motor.Integration of sensory/motor factors into the Dean-Woodcock …
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Where will it go? Concepts of motion in complex events
… independent sub-events. Evidence also points to spatial thinking as a potentially important tool for fostering correct conceptions of motion.
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Mapping the Underthing: Literary Geography and Geographic Education in The Slow Regard of Silent Things
… even wholly imagined settings have an underlying spatial logic that can be analyzed and visualized and thus contribute to a deeper understanding of the novella and geography’s role in literature.</p> <p>This thesis also explores the educational potential of this exercise in literary geography. …
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The Essay Film and Space: The Essayistic Filmic Space as aLocation of Thought
… against the privileging of the temporal in the thinking operations of the moving image, the research addresses the renewed importance of spatial imagination, as a first step in establishing the significance of filmic space in cinematic consciousness. Filmic space has been mainly conceived as a …
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Using 3D Printing as an Instructional Tool to Improve Spatial Ability
… over the past 20 years have shown how important spatial ability is in predicting the tendency towards the STEM fields and also in creative production. Early attention to developing children’s spatial ability increases their achievement in math and science, and even nudges them towards STEM …
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Place and identity in Italian photography through a study of the town of Lugo
… I have drawn first on a specific history of spatial thinking, developed since the 1970s across various disciplines in the humanities (philosophy, geography and social science), which has reflected on the nature of space and place in a new way. The main innovation in this debate was a new …
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Improving the consideration of cumulative effects in Strategic Environmental Assessment of spatial plans: A case study in the peri-urban region of Milan
… one of the most appropriate procedure to support spatial and land use plans in managing CE; the advancement in integrating the assessment of CE into SEA practice has been often stated slow to evolve, suggesting a gap between SEA theory and practice in treating cumulative effects and confirming …
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The Relationship Between the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition and the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities in a Clinically Referred Pediatric Population
… Comprehension Index and the WJ III COG Visual-Spatial Thinking (Gv) factor demonstrated a large correlation. Both the WISC-IV Processing Speed Index and Working Memory Index correlated moderately with the WJ III COGGvfactor, while the WISC-IV Perceptual Reasoning Index correlated moderately …
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Desarrollo de habilidades de pensamiento espacial en estudiantes de grado sexto.
El objeto de estudio de este trabajo de grado lo constituye el desarrollo de habilidades de pensamiento espacial (HPE), tales como: observación, descripción y explicación en estudiantes del grado 601 del Colegio María Cano IED, en la categoría de paisaje urbano. El primer capítulo de la …