- Title
- Spatial ability performance of female engineering students
- Creator
- Sutton, Ken; Williams, Anthony; McBride, William
- Relation
- 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AEE 2009). Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (Adelaide, S.A. 6-9 December, 2009) p. 170-175
- Relation
- http://aaee.com.au/conferences.html
- Publisher
- University of Adelaide, School of Mechanical Engineering
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- This paper reports on studies conducted to evaluate the spatial understanding of female engineering students across a range of spatial tasks. Spatial ability is considered a fundamental skill in design-based disciplines and is often seen as a predictor of success in engineering graphics courses. Participants were novice female engineering students undertaking a first year introductory graphical communication course. Results are compared with previous studies that consistently show a gender bias favouring males. This paper profiles the performance of novice female engineering students on a psychometric test of 3D ability consisting of 12 different subtests and six test items in each. Issues associated with improving performance are also raised.
- Subject
- engineering students; female students; spatial ability; 3D ability tests
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/919785
- Identifier
- uon:8972
- Identifier
- ISBN:1876346590
- Language
- eng
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