Jack Parkinson
ABSTRACT
The relationship between spatial skills and computing science has been well explored in recent years. Several publications across a range of venues have presented work at several levels with many different outcomes. There has also been some exploration of the reason why this relationship exists and what it could mean for computing and STEM education more broadly. This poster aims to summarise all these works and present a cohesive synopsis of spatial skills in computing research to date.
- Ryan Bockmon, Stephen Cooper, Jonathan Gratch, Jian Zhang, and Mohsen Dorodchi. 2020. Can Students’ Spatial Skills Predict Their Programming Abilities?. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education(ITiCSE ’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 446–451. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341525.3387380Google Scholar
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- Ryan Bockmon, Stephen Cooper, William Koperski, Jonathan Gratch, Sheryl Sorby, and Mohsen Dorodchi. 2020. A CS1 Spatial Skills Intervention and the Impact on Introductory Programming Abilities. In Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education(SIGCSE ’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 766–772. https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3366829Google ScholarDigital Library
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- Stephen Cooper, Karen Wang, Maya Israni, and Sheryl Sorby. 2015. Spatial Skills Training in Introductory Computing. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research(ICER ’15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/2787622.2787728 event-place: Omaha, Nebraska, USA.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Anna Ly, Jack Parkinson, Quintin Cutts, Michael Liut, and Andrew Petersen. 2021. Spatial Skills and Demographic Factors in CS1. In 21st Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3488042.3488049 event-place: Koli, Finland.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Lauren E. Margulieux. 2019. Spatial Encoding Strategy Theory: The Relationship between Spatial Skill and STEM Achievement. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research(ICER ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 81–90. https://doi.org/10.1145/3291279.3339414 event-place: Toronto ON, Canada.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Jack Parkinson. 2020. Investigating Spatial Skills in Computing Education. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research(ICER ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 340–341. https://doi.org/10.1145/3372782.3407109 event-place: Virtual Event, New Zealand.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Jack Parkinson and Quintin Cutts. 2018. Investigating the Relationship Between Spatial Skills and Computer Science. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research(ICER ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 106–114. https://doi.org/10.1145/3230977.3230990 event-place: Espoo, Finland location: Espoo, Finland.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Jack Parkinson and Quintin Cutts. 2020. The Effect of a Spatial Skills Training Course in Introductory Computing. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education(ITiCSE ’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 439–445. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341525.3387413Google ScholarDigital Library
- Jack Parkinson and Quintin Cutts. 2022. Relationships between an Early-Stage Spatial Skills Test and Final CS Degree Outcomes. In Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 293–299. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478431.3499332Google ScholarDigital Library
- Jack Parkinson, Sebastian Dziallas, Gary Lewandowski, Fiona Mcneill, Jim Williams, and Quintin Cutts. 2022. Experience Report: Running and Participating in a Multi-Institutional Research in Practice Project Activity (RIPPA). In The United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER) Conference. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3555009.3555014Google ScholarDigital Library
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- An Overview of the Relationship between Spatial Skills and Computing Science
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