The Relationship between Pre-Service Teachers' Spatial Experience and Spatial Visualisation at a Rural-Based University

Autor/in	Kok, Petrus Jacobus
Titel	The Relationship between Pre-Service Teachers' Spatial Experience and Spatial Visualisation at a Rural-Based University
Quelle	In: African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 25 (2021) 1, S.103-111 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kok, Petrus Jacobus)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1029-8457
DOI	10.1080/18117295.2021.1923884
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teachers; College Freshmen; Late Adolescents; Correlation; Spatial Ability; Visualization; Engineering Education; Drafting; Games; Computer Use; Perceptual Motor Coordination; Predictor Variables; Rural Education; Universities; Computer Graphics; Foreign Countries; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienanfänger; Halbstarker; Korrelation; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Visualisation; Visualisierung; Ingenieurausbildung; Draft; Entwurf; Game; Spiel; Spiele; Körperkoordination; Prädiktor; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; University; Universität; Computergrafik; Ausland; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Over several years, first-year pre-service education students regularly experienced difficulty with engineering graphics activities. Research has already established that these activities require the use of well-developed spatial visualisation which is, for the most part, determined by a persons' spatial experience. The importance of this study was that very little is known about rural students' spatial experience; therefore, this quantitative study focused on the relationship between students' pre-university spatial life experience and spatial visualisation at a South African university in KwaZulu-Natal province. Fifty females and 50 males were randomly selected from a cohort of first-year engineering graphics students. The study was grounded in the socio-cultural learning theory which advances that learning is both a physical and an intellectual activity. Therefore, the assumption was that the nature and repetition of spatial-type life experience have had an impact on the acquisition and retention of spatial visualisation. Following a non-experimental design, two research instruments, a Spatial Experience Questionnaire and a Spatial Visualisation Test, were used to quantify a Spatial Experience score and a Spatial Visualisation score, respectively. Correlation and linear regression were used to investigate the significance of the relationship. Overall, spatial life experience did not have any significant correlation with students' spatial visualisation; however, within the constructs of spatial activities, playing traditional games and using computers were significant predictors. In contrast to previous studies, sketching was not sufficient evidence to predict spatial visualisation. The study recommends that teachers in spatial visualisation-dependent subjects, such as technology and engineering graphics design, could include games with a strong eye-hand-foot coordination component as well as playing and doing computer-type activities to enhance learners' spatial visualisation. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01