{"id":2211,"date":"2012-05-29T08:29:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T14:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:56:54","slug":"visual-ability-predicts-a-computer-science-career-why-and-can-we-use-that-to-improve-learning-computing-education-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/05\/29\/visual-ability-predicts-a-computer-science-career-why-and-can-we-use-that-to-improve-learning-computing-education-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual ability predicts a computer science career: Why? And can we use that to improve learning? \u00ab Computing Education Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>This is interesting, and may explain why teachers have trouble with science and math (and why kids who are inclined towards science and math have trouble with teachers).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is from a longitudinal study, testing students\u2019 visual ability, then tracking what fields they go into later. Having significant visual ability most strongly predicts an Engineering career, but in second place (and really close) is \u201cMathematics and Computer Science.\u201d That score at the bottom is worth noting: Having significant visual ability is negatively correlated with going into Education. Nora points out that this is a significant problem. Visual skills are not fixed. Training in visual skills improves those skills, and the effect is durable and transferable. But, the researchers at SILC found that teachers with low visual skills had more anxiety about teaching visual skills, and those teachers depressed the impact on their students. A key part of Nora\u2019s talk was showing how the gender gap in visual skills can be easily reduced with training (relating to the earlier discussion about intelligence), such that women perform just as well as men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/computinged.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/29\/visual-ability-predicts-a-computer-science-career-why-and-can-we-use-that-to-improve-learning\/\">Visual ability predicts a computer science career: Why? And can we use that to improve learning? \u00ab Computing Education Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bownet.org\/BESGifted\/visual.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a list of characteristics for someone who is spatially gifted<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure how accurate it is, but it describes everyone in my house, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-2211'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2211);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2211);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(2211);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>This is interesting, and may explain why teachers have trouble with science and math (and why kids who are inclined towards science and math have trouble with teachers). This is from a longitudinal study, testing students\u2019 visual ability, then tracking &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/05\/29\/visual-ability-predicts-a-computer-science-career-why-and-can-we-use-that-to-improve-learning-computing-education-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[353,9,14,81,24],"tags":[41,122],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-2","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-information-technology","category-teaching-learning","tag-education","tag-stem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-zF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2307,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/06\/16\/a-new-definition-for-stem\/","url_meta":{"origin":2211,"position":0},"title":"A New Definition for STEM?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a discussion going on on on of the LinkedIn forums. 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