Publications and Presentations
2013
Ormand, Carol J., Cathryn A. Manduca, Thomas F. Shipley, and Basil Tikoff (2013). Developing and Testing Materials to Improve Spatial Skills in Upper Division Geoscience Courses (Acrobat (PDF) 2.3MB Apr17 13): TUES/CCLI PI Conference (Washington, DC).
2012
Gagnier, Kristin, Kinnari Atit, Thomas Shipley, and Carol Ormand (2012). Improving Penetrative Thinking Skills for Geoscience Education: Integrated Science of Learning Conference (San Diego, CA).
Ormand, Carol (2012). Learning to Think Spatially: In the Trenches, v. 2, n. 2, pp. 10-11.
Related Publications & Presentations from Team Members' Research
(not funded via this project)
2013
Atit, Kinnari, Tilbe Goksun, Carol Ormand, Cathryn A. Manduca, Ilyse Resnick, Thomas F. Shipley, and Basil Tikoff (2013). Spatial Gestures Point the Way: A Broader Understanding of the Gestural Referent (Acrobat (PDF) 245kB Apr30 13): Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Manuscript submitted for publication.
2012
Atit, Kinnari, Tilbe Goksun, Carol Ormand, Cathryn Manduca, Ilyse Resnick, Thomas F. Shipley, and Basil Tikoff (2012). A Framework for Classifying Spatial Gestures (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 7.2MB Jun22 12): Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum (Williamstown, MA).
2011
Murphy, Rachel, Carol Ormand, Laurel Goodwin, Thomas Shipley, Cathryn Manduca, and Basil Tikoff (2011). Improving Students' Visuo-Penetrative Thinking Skills Through Brief, Weekly Practice (Acrobat (PDF) 19.5MB Nov9 11): Geological Society of America annual meeting (Minneapolis, MN). See abstract.
Ormand, Carol, Thomas Shipley, Cathryn Manduca, and Basil Tikoff (2011). Improving Geoscience Students' Spatial Thinking Skills: Applying Cognitive Science Research in the Classroom (Acrobat (PDF) 3.2MB Mar8 12): American Geophysical Union fall meeting (San Francisco, CA).
Shipley, Thomas, Cathryn Manduca, Carol Ormand, and Basil Tikoff (2011). Spatiotemporal Thinking in the Geosciences: American Geophysical Union fall meeting (San Francisco, CA).
2010
Ormand, Carol, Cathryn Manduca, Thomas Shipley, and Basil Tikoff (2010). Students' Spatial Thinking Skills (Acrobat (PDF) 828kB Jun30 10): Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum (Madison, WI).
Ormand, Carol, Cathryn Manduca, Thomas Shipley, and Basil Tikoff (2010). Geoscience Students' Spatial Thinking Skills: Results From Multi-Institutional Classroom Studies (Acrobat (PDF) 24MB Nov17 10): Geological Society of America annual meeting (Denver, CO). See abstract.
2009
Harwood, Cara L., Carol Ormand, Cathryn Manduca, and Thomas F. Shipley (2009). Differences in Development of Spatial and Object Visualization Ability in Undergraduate Geoscience Courses: Geological Society of America annual meeting (Portland, OR). See abstract.