Beyond small-scale spatial skills: Navigation skills and geoscience education.
Alina NazarethNora S NewcombeThomas F ShipleyMia VelazquezSteven M WeisbergPublished in: Cognitive research: principles and implications (2019)
Our findings highlight the importance of large-scale spatial thinking for enrollment and success in the GEO fields but likely also across the broader range of thinking involving spatial distributions. We discuss the potential of GIS tools to develop spatial skills at an early age.