Analysis of Spatial Sense in Secondary School Students in PISA Activities

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https://doi.org/10.35763/aiem27.6538

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Evaluation, Geometry, Spatial sense, Visualization, PISA

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This article analyzes the components of spatial sense in solving activities proposed by PISA. For that purpose, categories are established that allow identifying the manifestations of the spatial sense of 122 15-year-old students who are in the first year of Uruguayan high school when solving the PISA activities and are related to the performance achieved in the classroom tests proposed by their teachers. From the correlation analysis, relationships are obtained between performance and visualization skills and the management of geometric concepts in some activities. It is evident that those who present a better performance in the evaluation implemented by the teachers tend to have a greater manifestation of the spatial sense in the PISA activities. The spatial sense required in the PISA activity that best predicts the performance achieved by students in the evaluation implemented by the teachers is also described.

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2025-05-02

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Elvas Fernández, M. I., & Ramírez Uclés, R. (2025). Analysis of Spatial Sense in Secondary School Students in PISA Activities. Advances of Research in Mathematics Education, (27), 203–221. https://doi.org/10.35763/aiem27.6538

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