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Board 182: Work in Progress: Considering the Effect of Gender on a Latent Factor Model of the PSVT:R

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Portland, Oregon

Publication Date

June 23, 2024

Start Date

June 23, 2024

End Date

July 12, 2024

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Poster Session

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

Tagged Topic

Diversity

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Savanna Dautle Rowan University

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Savanna Dautle is a doctoral candidate in the Experiential Engineering Education (ExEEd) department at Rowan University, in Glassboro, NJ. She is pursing her Ph.D. in Engineering Education under the advisement of Dr. Stephanie Farrell. Her research interests include psychometrics, modeling, evaluation, and instrument development.

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Stephanie Farrell Rowan University

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Dr. Stephanie Farrell is Professor and Founding Department Head of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University (USA). Prior to 2016 she was a faculty member in Chemical Engineering at Rowan.

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Abstract

The correlation of gender and spatial skills has been debated considerably in recent years. To add some insight to this debate, we examine the mental rotation skill of a group of first-year engineering undergraduate students at a large, public university. Using accuracy information from an online version of the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Rotations (PSVT:R) and self-reported gender, we performed multiple structural equation model (SEM) analyses based on a previously developed model. The aim of this work was to examine any differences that may exist between groups of test-takers, best represented by multi-group SEM; however, in spite of numerous efforts, insights into the proposed research questions could not be gained.

Dautle, S., & Farrell, S. (2024, June), Board 182: Work in Progress: Considering the Effect of Gender on a Latent Factor Model of the PSVT:R Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/46746

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