Assessing visualization abilities in minority engineering students

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 805-815

  Study, Nancy E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMICS; MINORITIES; SPATIAL SKILLS; STANDARDIZED TESTS;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; VISUALIZATION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 5444226672     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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