Although there are many widely used standardized instruments for assessing children's language and mathematical skills, there are few methods for assessing young children's spatial skills. However, many tasks have been developed for research settings that could be adapted for large-scale use (e.g., in schools), and that would provide sensitive and differentiated knowledge about skill profiles that would link tightly with theory and research-based knowledge. We will develop a spatial assessment battery--a standardized instrument for assessing spatial cognition.
08/18/2008 The photo gallery has been up-dated with a couple of photos from the AAAI Intelligent Systems Demo.
08/18/2008 Dominique W. Dumay and Christopher J. Schilling have both joined our SILC Staff. Welcome!
08/14/2008 Publications page up-dated from Annual Report.
08/14/2008 More citations added to the Bibliography page.
08/13/2008 There are now 195 members in our Spatial Network!
08/11/2008 Our website was temporarily unavailable Friday evening August 8th. The tech support team at Northwestern University was able to get our internet access reconnected in the span of a few hours. All service should be running smoothly now.
08/11/2008 Please continue to send Jenn Stedillie notifications of links that aren't working that you need to use right away. She is going through links and checking connections through this week. After this week, be sure to let the know of any links that are still not opening correctly.
08/08/2008 SILC People page has been up-dated. Publications page has been up-dated (more publications will be added next week as well).
08/08/2008 Elise Krause (Northwestern University) has joined our SILC Staff. Welcome!
08/08/2008 Information added to Asifa Majid's entry on our Spatial Network members page; also a relevant paper by Majid, A., et al added to the Bibliography page.
08/07/2008 The photo gallery has changed. Mouseover and plain html versions available on same page.
08/01/2008 We've added a photo gallery to our website under our Resources menu! More info about the pictures and more pictures will be added as we receive them.
07/31/2008 Our new website is up and running. There are still links that may need to be fixed because of some restructuring that has happened. This will get cleaned up during the next couple of weeks (as well as a bit of tweaking here and there). Please, let Jenn Stedillie know if there is a link you need to get to right away.
07/14/2008 Pennsylvania Governor Rendell and US Congressman Joe Sestak have both issued press releases regarding the recent $10 million award.
07/08/2008 Two of our Co-P.I.s and their research, Dedre Gentner and Susan Goldin-Meadow, are mentioned in The New York Times article, "When Language Can Hold the Answer."
07/01/2008 $10 million Awarded to Pennsylvania Schools and Universities.
07/01/2008 Katrina Ferrara has joined our SILC Staff. Welcome!
added to the Bibliography page.