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

• Main Authors: Kovács András Zsolt, Németh László
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2014-07-01
• Series: YBL Journal of Built Environment
• Subjects: mental rotation test; mrt; descriptive geometry education; spatial ability
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2478/jbe-2014-0002

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