The Evaluation and Development of Spatial Thinking Ability Assessment

Spatial thinking is an essential skill not only in daily life but also in many disciplines. Research found out that the achievement between sciences, technology, engineering and mathematical and spatial thinking have positive relationship. Besides, spatial thinking is a critical skill to geographic studies. As a result, the evaluation of spatial thinking becomes significant these days. There are many assessments developed by psychologist that focused on small-scale of spatial thinking, which are quite different from the large-scale assessments of geographers’ concern. The development for large-scale assessments is still on experimental stage, as many of them lack of reliability and validity examination. After reviewing existed assessments for large-scale spatial thinking, this research develops an assessment called Spatial Thinking Ability Assessment, which contains five sub-scale, including 27 questions. It is anticipated that this assessment can be used for the assessment of large-scale spatial thinking.