<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The Mental Rotation Test (MRT) is one of the tests to survey the spatial ability. In this article we make an attempt to measure the spatial abilities of the students of wood industrial engineering and industrial design engineering of the Simonyi Károly Faculty of Engineering, Wood Sciences and Applied Arts (SKF for short) of the University of West Hungary and compare the results with the architects students of the Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering of the Szent István University. The paper aims to compare the results with respect to the scores and mainly the improvement based on new examination aspects. The article concludes that the small differences in the students’ developments of spatial ability in the two institutions can be caused by the difference in Descriptive Geometry courses</p></abstract>

The Mental Rotation Test (MRT) is one of the tests to survey the spatial ability. In this article we make an attempt to measure the spatial abilities of the students of wood industrial engineering and industrial design engineering of the Simonyi Károly Faculty of Engineering, Wood Sciences and Applied Arts (SKF for short) of the University of West Hungary and compare the results with the architects students of the Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering of the Szent István University. The paper aims to compare the results with respect to the scores and mainly the improvement based on new examination aspects. The article concludes that the small differences in the students’ developments of spatial ability in the two institutions can be caused by the difference in Descriptive Geometry courses

Development of Spatial Ability According to Mental Rotation Test at SKF and YBL

Institute of Architecture, Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary

Department of Architectural Representation, Faculty of Architecture, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Forestry, University of West Hungary, Sopron, Hungary

YBL Journal of Built Environment

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The Mental Rotation Test (MRT) is one of the tests to survey the spatial ability. In this article we make an attempt to measure the spatial abilities of the...

Development of Spatial Ability According to Mental Rotation Test at SKF and YBL

Published Online: Jul 10, 2014

Page range: 18 - 29

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jbe-2014-0002

Keywords
Mental Rotation Test, MRT, Descriptive Geometry education, spatial ability

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Development of Spatial Ability According to Mental Rotation Test at SKF and YBL

Published Online: Jul 10, 2014

Page range: 18 - 29

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jbe-2014-0002

KeywordsMental Rotation Test, MRT, Descriptive Geometry education, spatial ability

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords
Mental Rotation Test, MRT, Descriptive Geometry education, spatial ability