Spatial Skills Malleability of Pre-school Children

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RPV2UQTMHKSFFMBA5UP9/full?target=10.1080/10494820.2021.1922462" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RPV2UQTMHKSFFMBA5UP9/full?target=10.1080/10494820.2021.1922462</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2021.1922462" target="_blank" >10.1080/10494820.2021.1922462</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spatial Skills Malleability of Pre-school Children

Original language description

The presented study focuses on children aged from 5 to 6.5 who attend Czech kindergartens. Its purpose is to explore a potential positive impact of an educational game application on malleability of children&apos;s spatial skills through the application usage. The research was conducted as a pedagogical experiment in which the pre-test and post-test phases were carried out with the Mosaics, Puzzles and Patterns subtests of the SON-R 2.5-7 test battery, which is suitable for measuring general non-verbal intelligence in children aged 2.5-7. The game application which was created in the initial phase of the research was applied in the treatment phase to the experimental group. The results showed a statistically significant difference in the preschool children&apos;s spatial ability test scores in favour of the experimental group and confirmed statistically significant benefits of the game application in each of the measured skills. The results have clearly shown that supporting the development of spatial skills through game applications is more effective than a mere use of toys and activities recommended in the current educational guidelines for pre-school children elaborated by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Interactive Learning Environments

ISSN

1049-4820

e-ISSN

1744-5191

Volume of the periodical

31

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

3244-3256

UT code for WoS article

000648782600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85106013082