Mental rotation skills

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Training mental rotation skills
to improve spatial ability
Christian Bokhove
14 March 2018, Southampton, UK

Who am I ?
• Christian Bokhove
• From 1998-2012 teacher maths and computer
science, secondary school Netherlands
• PhD fro...

This collaboration
• Arose from collaboration Education School with
Psychology department and earlier links with King
Edwa...

Aims
1. Field testing online digital versions of MRS measurement
instrument.
2. Trying out a quite well-known application:...

Spatial skills: MRS can be trained
• Meta-analysis of training studies for spatial
skills: training in mental rotation can...

Spatial skills: MRS predicts maths
• Good spatial skills strongly predicts achievement and
attainment in science, technolo...

Spatial skills: gender differences
• gender differences (e.g. see the meta-analysis
by Voyer, Voyer and Bryden),
• althoug...

Platform
• Digital Mathematics Environment. Started as
project in Netherlands at Utrecht University.
• Extended into MC-sq...

Methodology
• Two groups, with about 85 students randomly
allocated to the conditions; they only differ in the
order in wh...

Try out at http://is.gd/kes2017
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Intervention tool (I)

• Ganis and Kievit (2015),
based on Shepard and
Metzlar (1971)
• Validated mental rotation
stimuli
• 48 sets of two block
...

In action…

In action…

• Stores correct/incorrect
• Time taken

Results
In this study we wanted to look whether
i. utilising a MRS training intervention to see if
it’s effective regardin...

Continuous/
discreet
disclaimer!

Results
In this study we wanted to look whether
i. utilising a MRS training intervention to see if
it’s effective regardin...

No intervention With intervention

Results
In this study we wanted to look whether
i. utilising a MRS training intervention to see if it’s
effective regardin...

Qualitative findings
• It was highly enjoyable but challenging.
– “Great fun”
– “I love this I love this I love this”
– “T...

Limitations and further research
• Ceiling effect, likely caused by no 7500 ms limit to tasks
in the MRS measurement
– Pup...

Thank you
• Contact:
– C.Bokhove@soton.ac.uk
– Twitter: @cbokhove
– www.bokhove.net
• Always happy to
explore possibilitie...

Selected references
Bokhove, C., & Redhead, E. (2017). Training mental rotation skills to improve spatial ability. Online ...

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