Attitudes towards sketching and drawing and the relationship with spatial visualisation ability in engineering students

International Education Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 165-175

  Alias, Maizam ^a   Gray, David E ^b   Black, Thomas R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TUN HUSSEIN ONN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitude; Correlation; Engineering; Sketching and Drawing; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 18544371467     PISSN: 14431475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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