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Gorska is on the faculty in the school of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology in Cracow, Poland. She spent the 1997-98 academic year on sabbatical to Michigan Technological University. Her research interests are in assessing and training for spatial skills  \nSheryl Sorby, Michigan Technological University  \nSheryl A. Sorby is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering andis the former Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College ofEngineering at Michigan Technological University. She is currentlyserving as a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Educationat the National Science Foundation. Sorby is active in the AmericanSociety for Engineering Education and the American Society of CivilEngineers. She is a past chair of the Engineering Design GraphicsDivision of ASEE. She was a recipient of the Dow Outstanding New Facultyaward and the Distinguished Teaching award, both from the North MidwestSection of ASEE. Her research interests include spatial visualization andcomputer aided design.  \n© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008  \nPage 13.1196.1  \nTESTING INSTRUMENTS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF 3-D SPATIAL SKILLS  \nAbstract 􀂾 Assessment and improvement of spatial skills is a significant topic of research in the engineering graphics community. In order to conduct this type or research, various instruments are available for assessing spatial skill levels. This paper describes several instruments used by the authors with various audiences in conducting research in spatial skills development. Typical scores obtained in the research are also presented.  \nINTRODUCTION: THE THEORY BEHIND THE PRACTICE  \nSpatial visualisation abilities play a are important for success in engineering studies as many researchers have found (Leopold 2005, Sorby 2001, 2005, Juščáková 2003, 2004, Suzuki 2004, Tsutsumi 2004). A significant number of students enter technical studies without well developed spatial skills. Thus one of the main objectives in teaching subjects such as descriptive geometry, engineering graphics, computer graphics and/or computer aided design, is to provide students with the kind of teaching materials and to introduce new methods for enhancing “seeing” and “thinking” in a three-dimensional world. The introduction of this paper covers various aspects of the theories of perception and visualisation. Following that, testing instruments used in research on spatial abilities will be described and the results of the experiments using these testing instruments will be presented.  \nSPATIAL ABILITY  \nAccording to L.L. Thurstone (1938) spatial ability is an important component of intellectual ability. Thurstone (1950) listed seven factors, three of these having to do with visual orientation in space, which he labelled S1, S2 and S3.  \nS1 was interpreted as the “ability to recognize the identity of an object when it is seen from different angles”, or as “the ability to visualise a rigid configuration when it is moved into different positions” as in the Flags test (Figure 1) .  \nS2 was interpreted as “the ability to imagine the movement or internal displacement among the parts in configuration”. This second factor S2 was involved in tests of mechanical movement and surface development. The third spatial factor S3 was said to represent “the ability to think about those spatial relations, in which the body orientation of the observer is an essential part of the problem”. In 1951 Thurstone carried out further studies on Mechanical Ability and reported ten factors extracted from the correlations of 32 spatial group tests given to 350 boys.  \nJ.W. French (1951) carried out a number of factorial investigations prior to 1951. He called the three spatial factors: the space factor, spatial orientation and spatial visualisation respectively. The space factor represented “the a","cbCaijiWpZeHXQU3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijiWpZeHXQU3","pdf",372692,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction: The Theory Behind the Practice\n# Spatial Ability\n## Theoretical foundations of spatial ability\n## Factor models and spatial categories\n## Spatial visualization and spatial orientation distinctions","[{\"question\":\"What is the paper’s main focus regarding spatial skills research?\",\"answer\":\"The paper focuses on how spatial skills can be assessed and improved in engineering graphics research using testing instruments, along with presenting typical scores from such studies.\"},{\"question\":\"Which areas of study does the introduction say benefit from enhanced spatial ability?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights teaching subjects such as descriptive geometry, engineering graphics, computer graphics, and computer aided design to help students “see” and “think” in a three-dimensional world.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper describe spatial ability using Thurstone’s theory?\",\"answer\":\"It explains that spatial ability is a component of intellectual ability and summarizes Thurstone’s factors, including visual orientation in space (S1–S3) and later mechanical-ability factor work.\"}]","TESTING INSTRUMENTS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF 3-D SPATIAL SKILLS - Abstract and Introduction | PDF",1789642098,25]