PART I Introduction.- Chapter 1 Spatial Cognition: Key to STEM Success, Myint Swe Khine.- PART II Measurement and Development of Spatial Ability.- Chapter 2 Validity of Spatial Ability Tests for Selection into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Career Fields, Laura G. Barron, Mark R. Rose, & James Johnson, Thomas R. Carretta.- Chapter 3 Spatial Ability: Measurement and Development, Rita Nagy-Kondor.- Chapter 4 Measuring Spatial Visualization: Test Development Study, Nazan Sezen Yuksel.- Chapter 5 Investigating Individual Differences in Visuo-Spatial Ability: Research Paradigms and Methodologies, Lu Wang.- PART II Research and Practices in Spatial Ability.- Chapter 6 What Innovations Have We Already Lost? : The Importance of Identifying and Developing Spatial Talent, Jonathan Wai, Harrison J. Kell.- Chapter 7Empowering Visuo-spatial Abilities among Italian Primary School Children: From Theory to Practice, Chiara Fastame.- Chapter 8 The Improvement of Spatial Ability: Do We Measure What We Intend to Measure? Yi-Ling Cheng.- Chapter 9 Mediator role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Spatial Thinking, Melih Turgut.- Chapter 10 Visuospatial Working Memory as a Part of Information-Processing System - A Modifiable Resource behind Academic Learning? Minna Kyttälä.- Chapter 11 Gender Differences in Visual-spatial Ability and Their Implications for STEM-fields, David Reilly & David Neumann, Glenda Andrews.- Chapter 12 Ranking and Predicting Results for Different Training Activities to Develop Spatial Abilities, Jorge Martín-Gutierrez.- Index.
