Conference Session

Classroom Methodologies

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Brian S. Woodard, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Tiffany Wenting Li; Ziang Xiao, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Molly H Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Michael L. Philpott, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Tagged Topics

Classroom methodologies, Diversity

rotations. Students who wereidentified as having weak spatial skills compared to their peers were advised to take a half-semestervisualization training course. The gender trends from the visualization assessment fit with past data, andadditional race and ethnicity trends in the data are presented. Male students who are not in underrepresentedminority groups generally performed the best on the assessment. The effectiveness of the spatialvisualization training course was determined by giving those students the same assessment again that all ofthe students took initially. Overall, the course provided significant gains in spatial visualization skills tothe students, consistent with past results with similar courses. This course was offered entirely