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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Spatial skills / training

Overview

  • Influence: Spatial skills / training
  • Domain: Curricula
  • Sub-Domain: Other curricula programs
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
  • Influence Definition: Spatial skills refer to the cognitive processing of spatial information, which concerns shapes, locations, paths, relations among entities and relations between entities and frames of reference

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 2
  • Number of studies: 49
  • Number of students: 3,765
  • Number of effects: 109
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.56
  • Robustness index: 2

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Developmental Psychology Hawes Canada Effects of spatial training on mathematics performance: A meta-analysis.  2022 Spatial training on math 29 3,765 89 0.28
Frontiers in Psychology Yang, Liu, Chen, Xu, & Lin China Is early spatial skills training effective? A Meta-analysis 2020 Spatial skills on achievement 20 0 20 0.96
TOTAL/AVERAGE 49 3,765 109 0.62
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