• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.647-658
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to analyze students' learning characteristics regarding spatial ability, orienteering ability and earth science content learning ability and their relationship through development and application of earth science activities using orienteering. The programme aims to improve students' spatial ability using orienteering activity which requires spatial ability. Topics in the programme included map, compass, contour, movement of celestial, and constellation application. Students were to orienteer in the field using the method they learned in class. This programme was applied to five 7th graders. The results are, first, students who have positive attitude toward science and do well at school tended to perceive their orienteering ability high. Second, all parts of spatial ability, spatial visualization, spatial orientation, spatial relation were used during orienteering, especially spatial visualization and spatial orientation. The relationship between spatial ability, orienteering ability, and earth science content learning abilities was not clear. However, orienteering ability and earth science content learning ability were in similar tendency.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈D:수학교육연구
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.91-106
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• 2012

Spatial ability has been valued as a talent domain and important skill in mathematics education because it enhanced an intuitive view and an understanding in many areas of mathematic. In addition, spatial ability highly correlates with mathematics achievement, indicating its crucial role in success in mathematics education. Some researchers founded gender differences in mathematics and spatial ability, and indicated that spatial ability served as a mediator of gender difference in mathematics. This study explored the spatial ability of 349 Korean middle school students (Grade 7-9), and investigated the association among students' spatial ability and their mathematics achievement, gender, and grade. The result of this study shows that spatial ability correlates positively with mathematics achievement. While gender difference did not exist in mathematics, significant gender difference existed in spatial ability favoring male students.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈D:수학교육연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.99-118
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• 2013

The present study focuses on the contribution of a teaching unit to the development of spatial ability of third graders in general and from a gender point of view in particular. The research population consisted of seventy-four pupils: thirty-seven pupils in the experimental group who attended the teaching unit and thirty-seven pupils in the control group. The spatial ability of all the pupils was examined by means of common tests which checked cognitive capabilities of spatial ability. The research findings illustrate an improvement in the spatial ability of the experimental group pupils following the participation in the teaching unit. Moreover, regarding the gender aspect, the findings show that there was no significant differentiation between the spatial ability of third grade boys and the spatial ability of girls of the same age group.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈C:초등수학교육
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.303-313
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• 2013

공간능력은 수학의 직관적 관점과 수학적 이해 및 수학적 성취도와도 밀접한 관련이 있다는 점에서 매우 중요한 능력으로 평가될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 초등학교 4, 5, 6학년 학생 1228명을 대상으로 공간시각화능력을 조사하였다. 이를 통하여 다음과 같은 연구결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 첫째, 공간시각화 능력과 수학성취도, 공간시각화 능력과 공간시각화 검사시간 사이에 상관관계가 있다. 둘째, 공간능력은 남녀 사이에 차이가 있었으며, 남학생이 여학생보다 더 높게 나타났다. 셋째, 공간능력은 학년수준에서 4학년보다는 5학년이 높았으며, 5학년보다는 6학년이 더 높게 나타났다.

• 영재교육연구
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.371-386
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• 2012

본 연구는 공간능력이 영재학생들을 판별하는데 중요한 요소로 작용한다는 전제하에 한국의 중학교 영재학생들과 일반학생의 공간능력을 비교하는 것을 주 목적으로 하고 있다. 이를 위하여 한국의 중학생들에게 '퍼듀 공간 시각화 검사: 회전의 시각화(Revised PSVT:R)'를 실시하였다. Revised PSVT:R의 타당도 검증을 위하여 확인적 요인분석을 실시하였으며, 이를 바탕으로 영재 학생들과 일반 학생들의 공간 능력 차이를 비교하였다. 연구 결과, 영재학생들은 일반학생들보다 공간능력에 있어서 훨씬 우수하였다. 공간 능력에 대한 검사 결과를 확장하여 공간능력과 수학, 과학, 언어 분야와의 관계를 살펴보았다. 공간능력은 수학, 과학, 언어분야와 상관관계가 높은 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 연구 결과를 종합하여 볼 때, 공간능력이 우수한 학생과 영재교육에 참여하고 있는 영재학생은 같은 특성이 있는 것으로 판단된다. 따라서 공간능력은 영재학생을 판별하는 중요한 검사도구로 포함되어야 할 것이다.

• 아동학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.61-74
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• 1985

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between spatial ability and sex-role orientation in children. For this purpose, 303 boys and 293 girls were selected randomly. Spatial ability was measured by Embedded Figures Test. Sex-Role orientation was measured by the Children's Personal Attributes Questionnaire (Spence, Helmreich & Stapp, 1975) which was translated into Korean. An item analysis was done. For the data analysis, a three-way analysis of variance and t-test were applied. The results of the present study showed that 1) spatial ability gradually improved between 10 and 14 years of age. 2) There were no significant differences between girls and boys in the performance on the spatial ability test. 3) Masculinity in girls was not significantly associated with high spatial ability. However, there was a tendency for the masculine girls in the direction of higher spatial scores than feminine girls and undifferentiated girls. 4) Femininity in boys was not significantly associated with high spatial ability. However, there was a tendency for the feminine boys in the direction of higher spatial scores than masculine boys and undifferentiated boys.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.178-188
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• 2011

This study was to find the effects of science activity activating spatial ability on spatial ability and creativity of the elementary school students. The survey was conducted with 30 second grade students in one class of "J" elementary school located in "C" City, Chungcheong-bukdo province. The students were taught with the program of science activity activating the spatial ability. According to the result, the science activity had significantly influence on the improvement of spatial ability of the elementary school students. It had also significantly influence on the improvement of spatial relationship ability. The science activity was also effective in the improvement of creativity, and especially in the subdomain of originality and sensitiveness. The students who has right brain preference showed much more improvement in the spatial ability compared to left brain preference students after science activity class. However there is no difference between the students who had the right brain preference and left brain preference in the creativity.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈C:초등수학교육
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.21-38
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• 2008

본 연구는 초등학교 학생들의 학년과 성적에 따른 실태를 조사하였다. 공간 능력은 크게 공간관계와 공간시각화로 나누고 그 하위요소들을 각각 3가지와 5가지로 두어 자세하게 분석하고자 하였다. 학년에 따른 공간능력의 실태를 살펴보면 고학년일수록 그 능력이 높았으며, 성적에 따른 공간능력의 경우, 성적 우수 아동이 그 능력이 더 높은 것으로 조사되었다. 그러나 교육과정에서 해당 공간능력을 다루느냐, 다루지 않느냐에 따라 상이한 차이를 보였다. 따라서 본 논문은 이와 관련하여 교수학습 과정 및 현재 교육과정에 시사점을 제공하고자 한다.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.28-39
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to investigate the conceptions about altitude of the Sun of elementary students according to differences by the spatial ability. In this study through the qualitative analysis, 4 students who were similar understanding levels of concepts to altitude of the Sun and differences by the spatial ability were selected out of 75 in 6th grade elementary located in Sunchang, Jellabuk-do Province. 4 students for the qualitative analysis were selected by the test instrument of spatial ability and altitude of the Sun. The results of study was students with higher spatial ability were higher understanding levels of concepts to altitude of the Sun. However, both of student with higher and lower spatial ability showed a false concept to the expanded concepts into outer space like a cause of seasonal change, change of altitude of the Sun by latitude unlike the intution. Students with lower spatial ability didn't form the scientific concepts, not only a cause of seasonal change and change of altitude of the Sun but also difference of energy density by altitude of the Sun. A student of two with lower spatial ability has been impediment strongly to form the scientific concept by the false concepts to the distance. The findings were as follows; Learning to altitude of the Sun regardless of the difference of spatial ability should be learned to interact to the intution, celestial movement and model experiment. To students with lower spatial ability should be developed teaching methods to understand the relation between the Sun and celestial movement.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.20-30
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to find how elementary students who have different spatial ability affects their understandings on the concept of the rotation of the earth. In order to perform this study, four 5th grade students were picked out of 85 students in Seoul. They had the same conceptual achievement on the movement of celestial bodies but had different spatial abilities. The results of this study were as follows : Regardless of their spatial ability, they understand how day and night are performed, and understand the fact that diurnal motions of moon are related to the rotation of the earth. Also, the students who had higher spatial abilities showed better understanding on the concept of the rotation of the earth and understood the reconstructed concepts in stereoscopic space. But the students who had lower spatial abilities did not fully understand the concept of the rotation of the earth and just memorized them as fragmentary concepts. As for the gender differences, the boy students who had higher spatial ability explained the concept clearly and the others who had lower spatial ability had difficulty in understanding the rotation direction of the earth related with the diurnal movement of celestial bodies. In the same manner, the girl students who had higher spatial ability explained the concepts concretely and the others who had lower spatial ability had difficulty in explaining the concepts by operating them stereoscopically. Therefore, developing teaching methods and studying data and so on, for the girl students, they should be trained to operate the stereoscopic space directly, and for the boy students, they should learn to think over objects with multi-viewpoints. And then the spatial ability on the movement of celestial bodies would be expected to be improved.