Analysis of multi-modal spatial visualization workshop intervention across gender, nationality, and other engineering student demographics

Segil, Jacob L.; Sullivan, Jacquelyn F.; Myers, Beth A.; Reamon, Derek T.; Forbes, Marissa H.

doi:10.1109/fie.2016.7757525

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“…3,7,9 Literature suggests that students' spatial skills can be improved through practice, mapping, sketching diagrams and appropriate use of 3D multimedia software. 5,14,25 It is argued that spatial ability could be improved by short-term targeted training interventions 26,27 and informal play-based activities. 28,29 These play-based activities and targeted trainings do not always have to include high technology software/applications.…”

Section: The Role Of Spatial Cognition Within Healthcare Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring spatial ability in healthcare students and the relationship to training with virtual and actual objects

Sezer

Elçin

2021

Eur J Dental Education

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Spatial ability, which is also called visual-spatial ability, can be defined as cognitive ability to understand and encode two/ three-dimensional objects and mental construction of two-or threedimensional forms by working memory. 1 In some circumstances, it is also defined as mental construction of two-dimensional forms of three-dimensional objects when cross-sectioned. 2 As is in many areas, spatial ability is an important cognitive skill in health sciences and can be subsequently developed. 3 It is important to determine the spatial ability skills of students especially during the first years of healthcare education. 4,5 This skill is necessary for anatomy education, which is the basic building block of healthcare education. 3 Studies reveal that spatial ability is one of the important precursors of success in anatomy knowledge learning. 4,[6][7][8][9][10][11] Many studies found out that students with low spatial ability performed poorly on practical anatomy examinations. 5,6,12,13 It is argued that spatial ability skill plays a role in success not only for anatomy but also for basic skills in health care. 7,14 Studies found out that spatial ability was directly related to physical examinations, 15 surgical procedures, [16][17][18] invasive procedures, 19 medical imaging 20,21 and dentistry skills. 3,19,22

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Section: The Role Of Spatial Cognition Within Healthcare Educationmentioning

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Exploring spatial ability in healthcare students and the relationship to training with virtual and actual objects

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2021

Eur J Dental Education

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“…2 shows that the nonworkshop group achieved higher test scores than the workshop groups, it should also be noted that Spatial Novices comprised a much larger proportion of the workshop group than the non-workshop group (67% vs. 41%), and thus started from a lower average test score (53% vs. 58%). As many other studies have shown [5][6][7][8][9] , women had lower scores on the initial PSVT:R test than men (F(1, 457) = 33.11, p=.000). Figure 4 shows that only 63% of women initially passed the test, compared to 80% of men.…”

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“…Typically, spatial abilities are instead developed through life experiences such as playing certain sports or video games, and building things with LEGO. The high dependence of spatial skills on these experiences often leads to significant gender differences in levels of spatial skills competence, with women and underrepresented minorities displaying lower spatial skills ability 5,6 . In many cases, these students struggle with, and eventually drop out of engineering programs, simply because they have not been given the chance to develop these skills.…”

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Best Overall 2019 Zone Paper and Zone 1 Winner - Implementation and First-year Results of an Engineering Spatial-skills Enhancement Program

Rosa¹,

Fontaine²

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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Spatial visualization skills are correlated with higher-level problem solving ability and associated with increased performance and retention in STEM fields. These skills are malleable but not typically taught in schools. To identify and assist first-year engineering students with low spatial ability, all first year engineering students in the Stevens Institute of Technology class of 2021 (N=459) took the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Rotations (PSVT:R). Students who scored below 70% were encouraged to participate in a 4-week spatial skills training workshop. Of the 134 female and 325 male first-year students, 37% of women and 19% of men did not initially pass the PSVT:R. Eighty-three percent (83%) of these women and 67% of these men elected to participate in the workshop. After completion of the workshop, the overall pass rate increased from 63% to 81% for women, and from 80% to 91% for men. The success of this workshop was notable based on participation, as well as post-workshop improvements in test scores, particularly for women.

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“…The work of Dr. Sheryl Sorby at Michigan Technological University has connected lacking SVS to different demographics, such as gender, with her research acting as a springboard for future studies on other demographics. One of those is on international students in STEM disciplines with the research on the impact of SVS training given the retention being of vital importance to STEM academic programs [14], [15].…”

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Spatial Visualization Skills Training at Texas State University to Enhance STEM Students' Academic Success

Novoa¹,

Spencer²,

Hazlewood³

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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She has a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and her research areas are Dynamic and Stochastic Programming and Parallel Computing to solve mathematical optimization problems applied to logistics and supply chain. Dr. Novoa has 19 years of experience in academia and 4 years of experience in industry. Dr. Novoa is receiving funding from NSF through Texas State STEM Rising Stars (2015-2019) and ME-Green: Manufacturing for the Environment by Generating Renewable Energy in Enterprise Networks (2017-2020). Texas State STEM Rising Stars is a four-years grant related to increase the first and second year retention and graduation rates of students in STEM. ME-Green is a three-years grant to model and design a grid-connected onsite generation system featuring renewable power to realize zero-carbon industrial operations. Dr. Novoa has been also committed to research on strategies to achieve gender equity and cultural inclusiveness in science and engineering.

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Analysis of multi-modal spatial visualization workshop intervention across gender, nationality, and other engineering student demographics

Cited by 14 publications

References 4 publications

Exploring spatial ability in healthcare students and the relationship to training with virtual and actual objects

Exploring spatial ability in healthcare students and the relationship to training with virtual and actual objects

Best Overall 2019 Zone Paper and Zone 1 Winner - Implementation and First-year Results of an Engineering Spatial-skills Enhancement Program

Spatial Visualization Skills Training at Texas State University to Enhance STEM Students' Academic Success

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