Relationship between Students’ Spatial Visualization Ability and their Ability to Create 3D Constraint-Based Models from Various Types of Drawings
121st ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Conference Proceedings 2014
Theodore J. Branoff, Modris Dobelis

During the fall of 2013, a study was conducted where students completed the PSVT:R and the MCT and then were asked to complete three different modeling tasks. These tasks included modeling a part when given the object in the context of an assembly drawing, modeling a part when given an isometric pictorial of the object, and finally modeling a part when given a detail drawing of the object. Research questions for this study include the following: Does a simpler rubric provide similar scores as the previous rubric? Is there a relationship between a student’s spatial visualization ability and their ability to model a part from a pictorial, assembly drawing or detail drawing? Is the MCT still a better predictor of a student’s modeling success than the PSVT:R? Scores evaluated based on the simplified rubric were significantly higher than the scores evaluated based on the original rubric for the part modeled from the assembly drawing. This study revealed significant positive correlations between each modeling task and the two spatial visualization tests.


Atslēgas vārdi
Assembly drawings; Constraint-based modeling; Implications for futures; Solid model; Spatial visualization; Valve bodies

Branoff, T., Dobelis, M. Relationship between Students’ Spatial Visualization Ability and their Ability to Create 3D Constraint-Based Models from Various Types of Drawings. No: 121st ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Conference Proceedings, Amerikas savienotās valstis, Indianapolis, Indiana, 15.-18. jūnijs, 2014. Indianapolis, Indiana: American Society for Engineering Education, 2014, 1.-14.lpp.

Publikācijas valoda
English (en)
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