Stills, not full motion, for interactive spatial training: American, Turkish and Taiwanese female pre-service teachers learn spatial visualization

Glenn Gordon Smith; Helen Gerretson; Sinan Olkun; Yuan Yuan; James Dogbey; Aliye Erdem

Computers & Education Vol. 52, No. 1 (January 2009) pp. 201–209

This study investigated how female elementary education pre-service teachers in the United States, Turkey and Taiwan learned spatial skills from structured activities involving discrete, as opposed to continuous, transformations in interactive...

Language: English

Why Interactivity Works: Interactive Priming of Mental Rotation

Glenn Gordon Smith; Sinan Olkun

Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 32, No. 2 (2005) pp. 93–111

This study has important implications for microworlds such as Logo, HyperGami, and Newton's World, which use interaction to learn spatial mental models for science, math, geometry, etc. This study tested the hypothesis that interactively rotating ...