Policy Implications for Science and Math Education, Visual Spatial Learning, and Neuromyth

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Based on recent special issues on constructivist learning and visual spatial talent from Frontiers in Educational Psychology and Roeper Review, to connecting information from neuroimaging, cognitive science, experimental psychology and education research, this symposium features emerging evidence from educational neuroscience and its potential to create a paradigm shift in the education policy and the science of learning to deepen our understanding of the learner in context. This panel will provide the audience with practical, well-articulated information to increase understanding in the strategic application of educational neuroscience to policy, neuroethics, and innovation in contemporary education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Brain, Neurosciences and Education

Chair

• Mary Layne Kalbfleisch, George Washington University

Papers

• Numerical Predictors of Arithmetic Skills in Early Elementary and Middle School - Ian M Lyons, University of Western Ontario

• Core Skills in Elementary School Science - Andrew Kenneth Tolmie, Institute of Education - London

• Visual Spatial Talent, Neurological Systems, Instrumentation, Education, and the Left Brain/Right Brain Neuromyth - Charles Gillmarten, George Mason University; Mary Layne Kalbfleisch, George Washington University

• Environmental Influences on Neural Systems of Reasoning and Implications for the Assessment of Intellectual Capacity - Mary Layne Kalbfleisch, George Washington University

Discussant

• Kristin R. Dellinger, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill