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Confirmatory Factor Analyses of the PSVT: R with Data from Engineering Design Graphics Students
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Williams, Thomas O., Jr.; Ernst, Jeremy V.; Kelly, Daniel P.; Clark, Aaron C. – Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 2019
The Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Visualization of Rotations (PSVT: R) is a widely used assessment of spatial ability. In this report, the factor structure of the PSVT: R test items was examined through confirmatory factor analysis with data from 541 engineering design graphics students. Stata 15 and Mplus 8.2 statistical software were used…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visualization, Cognitive Ability, Visual Measures
A Meta-Analysis on Gender Differences in Mental Rotation Ability Measured by the Purdue Spatial Visualization Tests: Visualization of Rotations (PSVT:R)
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Maeda, Yukiko; Yoon, So Yoon – Educational Psychology Review, 2013
This meta-analysis was conducted to estimate the magnitude of gender difference in three-dimensional (3-D) mental rotation ability and to investigate how factors related to test administration conditions play a role in varying gender difference effect sizes and threatening validity. Individuals' 3-D mental rotation ability was measured by the…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Effect Size, Visualization, Gender Differences
Children's Analysis of Hierarchical Patterns: Evidence from a Similarity Judgment Task.
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Dukette, Dianne; Stiles, Joan – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Examines the development of young children's analysis of spatial patterns--specifically, hierarchical letter and geometric forms. Suggests that although children as young as four years of age demonstrated substantial analytic competence, their ability to integrate the parts of the spatial array to form a coherent whole was weaker and more easily…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
The Measurement of Structural Visualization: An Evaluation of Spatial and Nonspatial Sources of Variation in the Wiggly Block and Paper Folding Test Scores. Technical Report No. 1988-5.
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Zimowski, Michele F.; Wothke, Werner – 1988
This report presents the results of a study designed to evaluate the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation's (JOCRF's) measurement of structural visualization. Three experimental tests--the Incomplete Open Cubes Test, the Guilford-Zimmerman Spatial Visualization Test, and Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices--were added to the JOCRF's test battery…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Ability, Latent Trait Theory
Factors Affecting Spatial Test Performance: Sex, Handedness, Birth Order, and Experience.
Guay, Roland B. – 1978
Four factors have been reported in the literature as being related to spatial test performance. This study investigated the main and interaction effects of sex, handedness, birth order, and experience on three different types of spatial performance; surface development, object rotation, and coordination of viewpoints. A total of 217 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Cognitive Ability, Experience, Higher Education
Gender Differences in Visual Spatial Skills: A Meta-Analysis of Doctoral Theses.
Druva-Roush, Cynthia Ann; Wu, Zhi Jun – 1989
Meta-analysis techniques were used to summarize the results concerning gender differences reported in doctoral dissertations on visual spatial skills. Dissertations were chosen because they are not subject to the selection process of journals, which may bias results toward large effects. An analysis of 150 independent data points in 43…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, College Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Effect Size