Goodridge, W. H., & Greenhalgh, S. D., & Lawanto, O., & Stewardson, G. A. (2012, June), Measuring the Differences in Spatial Ability Between a Face-to-Face and a Synchronous Distance Education Undergraduate Engineering Graphics Course  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21679

\bibitem{asee_peer_21679}
  Goodridge, W. H., \& Greenhalgh, S. D., \& Lawanto, O., \& Stewardson, G. A. (2012, June), \emph{Measuring the Differences in Spatial Ability Between a Face-to-Face and a Synchronous Distance Education Undergraduate Engineering Graphics Course}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21679

Wade H. Goodridge, Scott David Greenhalgh, Oenardi Lawanto, and Gary A. Stewardson.  "Measuring the Differences in Spatial Ability Between a Face-to-Face and a Synchronous Distance Education Undergraduate Engineering Graphics Course".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21679 Internet.  16 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_21679}
  Wade H. Goodridge, Scott David Greenhalgh, Oenardi Lawanto, and Gary A. Stewardson.
  "Measuring the Differences in Spatial Ability Between a Face-to-Face and a Synchronous Distance Education Undergraduate Engineering Graphics Course".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21679 Internet.  16 Apr, 2024

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AB  -                     Measuring the differences in spatial ability between                    a face-to-face and a synchronous distance education                        undergraduate engineering graphics course        Distance education is growing at colleges and universities throughout the United States.Engineering graphics laboratory courses are unique in their focus on skills and design with anemphasis on a hands-on approach when compared to many subjects which focus on masteringinformation. Most studies in the literature focus on how distance learning has impactedtraditionally lecture based curricular approach and have not focused on classrooms which aretraditionally laboratory based as would be typically found in many engineering graphics courses.This study measured and compared spatial ability as it is an essential component to engineeringgraphics and has a highly correlated measure of success in engineering and other STEMdisciplines. The purpose of the study was to measure and compare a face-to-face engineeringgraphics course with a synchronous distance education engineering graphics course byidentifying the impact of the teacher’s physical presence on students’ spatial ability. The PurdueSpatial Visualization Test of Rotations (PSVT:R) was used to collect the data through a pretestconducted at the start of class and posttest administered at the courses completion.        Results indicate a difference in spatial visualization progress for the two instructionalmediums. Students with a low beginning spatial ability showed greater improvement (p < .011)in the face-to-face courses (m = 3.50, SD = 1.93), than in the synchronous distance educationcourses (m = 1.39, SD = 2.25). As suggested by literature, there were a high proportion offemales in this first group, suggesting that female students may be impacted more than malestudents by a course with synchronous distance education. Further inquiry is suggested regardinghow synchronous distance education impacts students with varying spatial ability upon enteringcourses. Likewise, further inquiry is suggested to look at how various methods of delivery indistance education impact spatial ability in engineering graphics courses.
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