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Assessing Rigid and Non-Rigid Spatial Thinking
Khushbu Maheshwary (1), Boris Eisenbart (2), Stefan Zorn (3), Thomas Nelius (4), Kilian Gericke (3), Sven Matthiesen (4), Lucienne Blessing (1)
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Year:
2022
Editor:
Mario Štorga, Stanko Škec, Tomislav Martinec, Dorian Marjanović
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Series:
DESIGN
Institution:
1: Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore; 2: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 3: University of Rostock, Germany; 4: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Section:
Design Education
Page(s):
2333-2342
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ISSN:
2732-527X (Online)
Abstract:
Spatial Thinking (ST) is an important part of reasoning. In contrast to Rigid ST (R-ST), Non-Rigid ST (NR-ST) has hardly been researched and tests do not exist, even though NR-ST is crucial for professions that deal with space and time such as engineering and design. Our study at 4 different universities confirms that R-ST does not predict performance in NR-ST; that performance in Non-Rigid ST is significantly lower than in R-ST; and that performance of students in later semesters is not better than in the first semesters. These results highlight the need for further research into NR-ST.
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