3D Creative Teaching-Learning Strategy in Surveying Engineering Education

Abstract

For the acquisition of spatial reasoning, content is learned more quickly by means of the use of 3D objects. In the field of surveying engineering education, research has been carried out to promote the ability to interpret relief using 3D terrain representations with positive results, in which the instructor provided these 3D-models to the student. In the present research a change is proposed in the teaching-learning strategy in which the student ceases to be a passive subject who is asked to exercise with a 3D-model to adopt a creative role, since the student creates the object of learning using 3D tools. Under this approach can be measured also the impact of this strategy on creative competence. Results of 2 workshops performed with 115 engineering studies shows that this strategy help them to interpret the relief, and their creativity is improved in 36 points measured with the Abreaction Test of Creativity.

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“…A 2 (test: pre, post) × 2 (conditions: control, treatment) repeated measurement analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted to assess the impact of activity condition on creativity. These results are comparable to other experiments performed with other engineering students in which the same test was used [24,25,60,85,86]. The participants of the treatment group increased in the abreaction component by 3.34 points, which means that they felt less conditioned to follow predetermined paths.…”

“…Participants scored 132.0 in the creativity test score post-test. In the third study, an activity was carried out with 115 students [85] in which the students using low cost digital manufacturing technologies created a 3D model of a terrain representation. Participants scored 122.0 in the post-test.…”

“…Finally, the abreaction test for evaluating creativity (TAEC) [81] is a graphic-inductive test of figure compression; that is, to do it you have to make drawings. It has been used in several recent research articles with the aim of teaching engineering [24,25,60,[82][83][84][85][86]. That is one of the tests that is most used; it is focused on graphic creativity and students do it through drawings.…”

“…It is the analytical assessment used in this research, since it allows for comparisons and the detection of weaknesses and strengths of the individual in relation to creativity. The complete description of each of these components, as well as the assessment procedure, can be found in Carbonell-Carrera et al [85].…”

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“…These difficulties have generated problems of frustration/motivation among students [6][7][8][9]. Further, issues such as landform representation, spatial skills acquisition, or processes of spatial knowledge construction with different forms of relief representation continue to be active fields of research including recent works by Carbonell [10,11], Collins [12], Tillman, Albrecht and Wunderlich [13], Eynard and Bernhard [14], and Brooke and Bernhard [3].…”