Our team is working on the role of cognitive skills in assessing how students learn, and spatial reasoning ability is one area of interest. In thinking about this issue, we realized that we often start from what's available and what limitations we have, so I thought it would be fun to break out of that and ask the pie in the sky question:
If you could use any test, game, or activity to assess a child's spatial reasoning ability and/or spatial problem solving, what would you use and why? Imagine there are no restrictions on time, materials, platforms, etc. What would you most want to observe?
Anyone who knows my work would know that I have an interest in what we learn from observing block building. I have a lot of other ideas, but I want to see what other's think without additional bias from my thoughts.
Permit me to recommend testgorilla.
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Hello, there Amy L Shelton
Well, my 7-year-old son has great spatial reasoning. Aside from his Lego, which he is constantly working on, he loves building things from recycled materials and making origami animals. The other day he brought home a giant blueprint of a house that he and his classmates had been working on, and it was awesome!
So, I think that anything that kids have to build and that is big should be interesting. It may be worthwhile to watch competition shows on TV to get inspiration. I once saw this task where people had to do a giant puzzle, and it had to fit a pathway to get to the other side of a field.
Best regards.
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