Psychometric properties of the revised PSVT:R for measuring First Year Engineering students' spatial ability

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 763-776

  Maeda, Yukiko ^a   Yoon, So Yoon ^a   Kim Kang, Gyenam ^b   Imbrie, P K ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

First year engineering students; Mental rotation; Psychometric properties; Revised PSVT:R

Indexed keywords

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING; MENTAL ROTATION; PEARSON'S PRODUCT-MOMENT CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES; PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES; REVISED PSVT:R; SPATIAL VISUALIZATION;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; VISUALIZATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84878306787     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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