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    "title": "Does GIScience Training Enhance Spatial Navigation Ability?",
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    "abstract": "Research on the reciprocal influence of spatial thinking and GIScience training is limited (Wakabayashi & Ishikawa,2011). In the current project, we examine improvement in spatial navigation in undergraduates enrolled in GIS classes over thecourse of a semester. Students enrolled in strategic communications (SC), a low-spatial content class, were used as a controlgroup. Fifty students were trained and tested at 2 time points – beginning and end of a semester – in a virtual navigationtask (Silcton; Weisberg, et. al., 2014). We hypothesize that a significantly higher number of GIS students as compared toSC students will be Integrators i.e. they will find the most targets within-route and between-route in the virtual environment.Furthermore, we hypothesize that GIS students will show a significantly greater improvement at time point 2 as compared toSC students. This research has important implications for spatial training and educational pedagogy in STEM disciplines.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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