Silvia Di Battista
She is failing; he is learning': Gender-differentiated attributions for girls' and boys' errors
The British journal of educational psychology
lego construction ability associated variety spatial skills mathematical outcomes however unknown whether relations causal aimed establish causal impact lego construction training lego construction ability broad range spatial skills mathematical outcomes 79yearolds also aimed identify causal impact differs digital versus physical lego construction training onehundred ninetyeight children took part sixweek training programme delivered twice weekly school lunch time club completed either physical lego training n 59 digital lego training n 64 active control condition crafts n 75 children completed baseline followup measures spatial skills disembedding visuospatial working memory spatial scaling mental rotation performance spatialnumerical task number line task mathematical outcomes geometry arithmetic overall mathematical skills lego construction ability exploratory analyses revealed evidence near transfer lego construction ability evidence far transfer arithmetic lego training overall transfer limited despite identified key areas development explicit focus spatial strategies training teachers embedding programme within mathematical context findings study used inform future development lego construction training programmes support mathematics learning