Abstract
The acquisition of spatial skills/thinking is essential for both everyday functioning and academic purposes; therefore, valid and reliable assessment of this capability is an important task. However, to date, there have been few assessment instruments developed for spatial skills/thinking, and measures and approaches vary across disciplines and from study to study. The goal of this chapter is to review and synthesize peer-reviewed articles on the measurement/assessment of spatial skills/thinking. A search informed by systematic literature review protocols was conducted using Web of Science and Google Scholar as well as a manual search of well-known journals. A total of 19 papers were selected for full review with four broad trends in research identified: (1) measuring spatial skills/thinking on a small scale without any specific context, (2) measuring spatial skills/thinking on an environmental scale in everyday life contexts, (3) measuring spatial skills/thinking on a geographic scale in geoscience contexts, and (4) spatial skills/thinking self-assessments in everyday life contexts. This review broadens the understanding of spatial skills/thinking assessment across disciplines and provides directions for future research.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Key Challenges in Geography |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Pages | 77-97 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2022 |
Publication series
| Name | Key Challenges in Geography |
|---|---|
| Volume | Part F2246 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2522-8420 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2522-8439 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.
Keywords
- Assessment instruments
- Scale
- Spatial skills
- Spatial thinking