ASSESSMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF SPATIAL ABILITY DEVELOPED BY GRAPHICAL SUBJECTS

• Published in: JIDEG Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 281 - 284
• Main Authors: Corsiuc, Georgiana, Marza, Carmen, Graur, Ana Maria
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bucharest Societatea Romana de Grafica Inginereasca (SORGING) 01.05.2019; SORGING
• Subjects: Ability tests; Architectural engineering; Architecture; Civil engineering; College students; Construction; Cutting; Descriptive geometry; Education; Engineers; Geometry; Higher education institutions; Industrial design; Mathematics; Measurement methods; mental cutting test; mental rotation test; Rotation; spatial ability; Students; Urban planning
• ISSN: 1843-3766; 2344-4681

Mental Rotation Test, Mental Cutting Test, spatial ability, descriptive geometry, education. 1.INTRODUCTION In the practice of architect and engineer professions, understanding spatial forms and representing them in 2D as well as vice versa is an absolutely indispensable skill. [...]of obtaining the student status, it is particularly useful for teachers to correctly/objectively assess the level at which they are located, in order to be able to further improve their perception. There are several verification methods, but in this paper the authors intend to analyze the abilities of the students admitted to the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca with the help of the following tests also used by other higher education institutions [1], [2], [3], [6]: * Mental Rotation Test (MRT); * Mental Cutting Test (MCT) The two tests were administered to 80 students, (49 females and 31 males) in the first week of the academic year 2018-2019 and then repeated in the last week of school in January 2019, after they studied a semester of Descriptive Geometry. 2.MENTAL ROTATION TEST 2.1.Presentation of the evaluation process Mental Rotation Test (MRT) is one of the methods used to measure spatial ability and it consists of 20 items. [...]the spatial abilities of the students have developed after the study of Descriptive Geometry in the first semester. [3] Ilic, M., Dukic, A., Typology of spatial ability tests and its implementation in architectural study entrance exams, Facta Universitatis, Series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, Vol. 15, No 1, Special Issue, 2017, pp. 1-14. [6] Ilic, M., Dukic, A., Typology of spatial ability tests and its implementation in architectural study entrance exams, Facta Universitatis, Series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, Vol. 15, No 1, Special Issue, 2017, pp. 1-14.