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http://dx.doi.org/10.9722/JGTE.2012.22.2.371

Assessing Korean Middle School Students' Spatial Ability: Comparison between Gifted Students and General Students  

Park, Sung-Sun (Chuncheon National University of Education)
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Journal of Gifted/Talented Education / v.22, no.2, 2012 , pp. 371-386 More about this Journal
Abstract
Spatial ability has been valued as one component of intelligence and as an talented domain. The researchers agree that spatial ability is associated with the achievements in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and important in STEM education. The purpose of this study is to assess Korean middle school students' spatial ability and compare Gifted Students and General Students' spatial ability. For this purpose, 'The Revised PSVT:R' was translated into Korean and administered 509 Korean middle school students, and also internal consistency reliability evidence and construct validity evidence of 'The Revised PSVT:R' were examined. This study explored the spatial ability of Korean middle school students (graded 7 through 9), and investigated association between spatial ability and students' mathematics achievement, the students' spatial ability according to their gender and grade level. As a result, this study shows that gifted students were better than general students in spatial ability. And there were significant correlations between spatial ability and mathematics, science, Korean language achievement. According to these results, spatial ability should be included as one of the important components in identifying students for gifted education programs.
Keywords
Gifted education; Spatial ability; STEM education; Purdue Spatial Visualization Tests: Visualization of Rotations; PSVT:R;
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