علاقة القدرة المكانية بالقدرات العامة و التحصيل لدى طلبة الهندسة و التربية الفنية

Abstract EN

The purpose of this study was to measure the spatial ability and to determine its relationships with the academic specialization, academic achievement, and the General Aptitude Test (GAT) for the engineering students and students of art education at the King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia, during the first semester, 2013.

The problem of the study is mainly that the spatial abilities of university students are not measured prior to their entrance to some academic majors such as Engineering and Art education, in spite of its linking with success in these majors.

The study sample consisted of third-year students in the College of Engineering and the College of Education - Department of Art Education at the King Faisal University (n =119).The study used the Revised Purdue Spatial Visualization Test (RPAVT) and employed a descriptive approach to investigate the spatial ability of the students and its relationship to the study variables.

The results indicated that there were significant differences between students in the spatial ability depending on specialization, and these differences are for the benefit of engineering students.

In addition, the results showed that students with high achievement performed better in spatial ability test than the students with low achievement.

Moreover, the students with high general aptitude performed better in spatial ability test than the students with low general aptitude.