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The Malleability of Spatial Ability under Treatment of a FIRST LEGO League-Based Robotics Unit
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Coxon, Steven Vincent – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Spatial ability is important to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) success, but spatial talents are rarely developed in schools. Likewise, the gifted may become STEM innovators, but they are rarely provided with pedagogy appropriate to develop their abilities in schools. A stratified random sample of volunteer participants (n = 75)…
Descriptors: Gifted, Females, Spatial Ability, Control Groups
Psychometric Properties of the Revised Purdue Spatial Visualization Tests: Visualization of Rotations (The Revised PSVT-R)
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Yoon, So Yoon – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Working under classical test theory (CTT) and item response theory (IRT) frameworks, this study investigated psychometric properties of the Revised Purdue Spatial Visualization Tests: Visualization of Rotations (Revised PSVT:R). The original version, the PSVT:R was designed by Guay (1976) to measure spatial visualization ability in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Test Bias, Guessing (Tests), Construct Validity
Measuring the Differences in Spatial Ability between a Face-to-Face and a Syncronous Distance Education Undergraduate Engineering Graphics Course
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Greenhalgh, Scott D. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Distance education is growing at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Engineering graphics laboratory courses are unique in their focus on skills and design with an emphasis on a hands-on approach when compared to many subjects that focus on mastering information. Most studies in the literature focus on how distance learning has…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Engineering Education, Distance Education, Laboratories