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An Analysis of Construct Structures for Spatial and Error Pattern Scores Associated with the Spatial Ability and Related Gender Differences of Twelfth Grade Students in Thailand

Phunlapthawee, Kanda
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392740128

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2000, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, EDU Teaching and Learning.
This study examined spatial visualization and error pattern constructs underlying the Heinrich Spatial Visualization Test, the D'Costa Paper Folding Test, the Spatial Relations subtest of the Differential Aptitude Tests (DAT), and the Revised Minnesota Paper Form Board Test. This study also investigated gender differences in spatial scale scores and error pattern scores. The sample consisted of 1040 twelfth grade students from Bangkok, Thailand (520 females and 520 males). The four spatial visualization tests were administered to twelfth grade students in eight public high schools. From these four spatial visualization tests, nine scale scores were generated and fifteen types of errors were identified. Exploratory factor analysis with maximum likelihood extraction and oblique rotation was used to examine the spatial visualization and error pattern constructs for females and males. Multivariate Analyses of Variance (MANOVA) were performed to test gender differences in spatial scale scores and error pattern scores. The first-order factor analysis conducted in this study revealed that the spatial visualization constructs for both females and males consist of two factors: complex spatial manipulation with mental rotation, and simple spatial manipulation with little or no rotation. Similarly, with respect to the error pattern constructs, the results indicated three factors for females and four factors for males. The findings suggested that these error patterns are specific to each test. These first-order factor analyses are helpful in understanding the theoretical nature of spatial visualization and the errors associated with spatial problem-solving. Second-order factor analyses indicated that a single spatial factor might suffice for both females and males in this study. This was also true of error patterns. This study found that there are statistically significant gender differences in spatial visualization. Males have significantly higher mean scores than females on all tests, except the Revised Minnesota Paper Form Board Test. There are also statistically significant gender differences on the error pattern scores. Females make more errors than males in most error types in the spatial visualization tests, the exception being the three types of errors related to the Revised Minnesota Paper Form Board Test.
Ayres D'Costa (Advisor)
Thomas R. Knapp (Committee Member)
William E. Loadman (Committee Member)
182 p.
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  • Phunlapthawee, K. (2000). An Analysis of Construct Structures for Spatial and Error Pattern Scores Associated with the Spatial Ability and Related Gender Differences of Twelfth Grade Students in Thailand [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392740128

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Phunlapthawee, Kanda. An Analysis of Construct Structures for Spatial and Error Pattern Scores Associated with the Spatial Ability and Related Gender Differences of Twelfth Grade Students in Thailand. 2000. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392740128.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Phunlapthawee, Kanda. "An Analysis of Construct Structures for Spatial and Error Pattern Scores Associated with the Spatial Ability and Related Gender Differences of Twelfth Grade Students in Thailand." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392740128

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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