Research on Orienteering Specifically

• Orienteering as a tool for cognitive research: an implementation guide by Emma Waddington and Jennifer Heisz, 11/29/2024

• Kids with special needs

  • Effect of orienteering on students with ADHD, J of Educ Leadership and Policy Studies. "Orienteering has positive effects on developing of primary school students with ADHD attention, metacognitive awareness adn the perceptions of problem-solving skills." From Turkey. Among other things they used the d2 Attention Tet (Brickenkamp 1981), and the Problem Solving Inventory for Children (Serin et al 2010), and the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory for Children (A Form) (Sperling et al 2002)

  • Impact on the devleopment of self-concept of students with learning disabilities, 2021

• General population

  • Effect of orienteering on 6th grade academic achievement and map literacy. Case control study on teaching academically or experientially (with orienteering). Turkey. Education and Science Vol 48, 2023.

  • Effects on directional relationships and inhibitory control in kids age 7-8. J of Sports Research, 2021. Used the Topological and Directional Relation and Stroop Color-Word Test (Victoria version). Case control. Showed clear effect. Full text

  • Effect of orienteering exercises on children's executive function, 2021, Chinese J of School Health. 40 kids in 4th grade. Case-control. Tests used: More-odd shifting, 1-back and Flanker. "Orienteering improved 4th graders' executive function."

  • Orienteering to improve spatial perception skills in a social studies course. Turkey. Grade 4; 104 students case-control. Spatial Thinking Skill Test developed by the researcher. Full text

  • Improved Mental Representation of Space in Beginner Orienteers, 2012. Corsi Block-tapping Test, run Forward and Backward, and the Star-Butterfly Test. Case-control group. Orienteering group was able to remember and repeat sequences of events with greater precision.

  • Orientation and navigational skills of young children: 2 intervention strategies, 2009.

  • Children's Understanding of Maps: graphicacy development, 1989.

  • Orienteering, the map and child development, 2017. Research proposal.

  • Connecting orienteering skills to empathy, etc. Spatial navigation strategies and cognitive processes, 2014.

• "An Exploratory Examination of Families Engaged in an Adventure Running Kids Program"

• Surveys

  • Recent trends and future directions of research in orienteering, 1994