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Using The Purdue Spatial Visualization Test To Predict Success In Statics

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Otto J. Helweg

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

papers on engineering education repository (american society for engineering education)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.18260/1-2--9984

Subject(s) - visualization , computer science , test (biology) , statics , session (web analytics) , spatial ability , graphics , mathematics education , data science , artificial intelligence , psychology , computer graphics (images) , world wide web , paleontology , physics , cognition , classical mechanics , neuroscience , biology

There has been considerable research concerning the relationship between spatial visualization skills and success in engineering studies. These studies have looked at gender differences in spatial visualization ability (using various tests such as the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test, PSVT) and the correlation between this ability and (usually) engineering graphics. This paper is an interim report concerning an ongoing study at North Dakota State University to replicate the results of the literature with special regards to skills in the first course in vector mechanics, statics. Preliminary findings show a very weak correlation between the PSVT and success in statics, which would seen to indicate that success on the PSVT is not a good predictor of success in this course.

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