The Purdue Visualization of Rotations Test

TCE

The Chemical Educator

ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)

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Abstract Volume 2 Issue 4 (1997), S1430-4171(97)04138-X

The Purdue Visualization of Rotations Test

George M. Bodner* and Roland B. Guay

Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 and Department of Supervision, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907

Published online: 3 October 1997

Abstract. This paper probes the relationship between the psychometric construct known as "spatial ability" and students’ performance in introductory chemistry courses. It examines some of the early literature on the evolution of the concept of spatial ability, reviews the results of research on the relationship between success (or failure) in introductory chemistry courses and students’ spatial ability, and describes a spatial ability test known as The Purdue Visualization of Rotations (ROT) test that has been shown to be among the spatial ability tests whose results are least likely to be complicated by analytical processing.

Key Words: In the Classroom; analytic processing; diagnosing student difficulties; gender effects; Gestalt processing; problem solving; quantitative research; spatial ability

(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: gbodner@purdue.edu)

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Supporting Materials:

The Visualization of Rotations (ROT) Test (228 KB) 10.1007/s00897970138b

Answer Key for The Visualization of Rotations (ROT) Test (5 KB) 10.1007/s00897970138c