Hierarchical development of early visual-spatial abilities. A taxonomy based assessment using the MaGrid app.

Autor/inn/en	Jung, Stefanie; Meinhardt, Anna; Braeuning, David; Roesch, Stephanie; Cornu, Véronique; Pazouki, Tahereh; Schiltz, Christine; Lonnemann, Jan; Moeller, Korbinian
Titel	Hierarchical development of early visual-spatial abilities. A taxonomy based assessment using the MaGrid app.
Quelle	In: Frontiers in psychology, 11 (2020) Art. 871, 14 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1664-1078
DOI	10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00871
URN	urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-232256
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Faktorenanalyse; Entwicklungsdiagnostik; Frühe Kindheit; Baden-Württemberg; Bewertung; Deutschland; Faktorenanalyse; Hierarchie; Entwicklung; Entwicklungsdiagnostik; Replikation; Taxonomie; Taxonomie; Tablet PC; Bewertung; Entwicklung; Hierarchie; Replikation; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Tablet PC; Kindergartenkind; Baden-Württemberg; Deutschland
Abstract	Visual-spatial abilities (VSA) are considered a building block of early numerical development. They are intuitively acquired in early childhood and differentiate in further development. However, when children enter school, there already are considerable individual differences in children's visual-spatial and numerical abilities. To better understand this diversity, it is necessary to empirically evaluate the development as well as the latent structure of early VSA as proposed by the 2 by 2 taxonomy of Newcombe and Shipley (2015). In the present study, we report on a tablet-based assessment of VSA using the digital application (app) MaGrid in kindergarten children aged 4-6 years. We investigated whether the visual-spatial tasks implemented in MaGrid are sensitive to replicate previously observed age differences in VSA and thus a hierarchical development of VSA. Additionally, we evaluated whether the selected tasks conform to the taxonomy of VSA by Newcombe and Shipley (2015) applying a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) approach. Our results indicated that the hierarchical development of VSA can be measured using MaGrid. Furthermore, the CFA substantiated the hypothesized factor structure of VSA in line with the dimensions proposed in the taxonomy of Newcombe and Shipley (2015). Taken together, the present results advance our knowledge to the (hierarchical) development as well as the latent structure of early VSA in kindergarten children. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2021/3