자료유형 | 학위논문 |
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서명/저자사항 | Understanding Preservice Teachers' Spatial Reasoning and How It Affects Their Work with Elementary Students. |
개인저자 | Metzger, Michelle R. |
단체저자명 | The University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Educational Studies. |
발행사항 | [S.l.]: The University of Nebraska - Lincoln., 2019. |
발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
형태사항 | 216 p. |
기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-04A. Dissertation Abstract International |
ISBN | 9781085747837 |
학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2019. |
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Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Advisor: Males, Lorraine M. |
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요약 | Spatial reasoning involves those skills that allow one to mentally picture and manipulate objects which plays a unique role in learning and succeeding in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields (STEM). Despite the urgent need for strong spatial reasoning skills, our current education system spends little time fostering elementary students' visual and spatial reasoning skills. This is becoming increasingly problematic as the need to become literate in the STEM fields has never been greater.The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the spatial reasoning skills that preservice teachers demonstrated and how their spatial reasoning skills were used in the enactment of the tasks of teaching. Thirty-two preservice teachers completed a spatial reasoning task. Each preservice teacher then teamed with their practicum partner, created an adapted plan using the same spatial reasoning task, and enacted their plan with an elementary student in Grades K-5. Finding from this study indicate that the spatial reasoning skills of preservice teachers are weak, which hinders flexible thinking when observing elementary students engaged in a spatial reasoning task. How learners represent and connect pieces of knowledge is a critical factor in whether they will understand it deeply and can use it in problem solving. |
일반주제명 | Elementary education. Instructional design. Teacher education. |
언어 | 영어 |
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