Visualisation skills among Universiti Teknologi Malaysia student

A visualization skill is very important in engineering field and it is positively correlated with achievement in engineering disciplines. Therefore, this study was carried out to study visualization skills level among students in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Skudai. 730 respondents engaged in...

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Main Authors: Nordin, Mohd. Safarin, Ali, Dayana Farzeeha
Format: Article
Published: International Journal of Information and Education Technology 2012
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33634/
http://dx.doi.org/10.7763/IJIET.2012.V2.155
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Summary:A visualization skill is very important in engineering field and it is positively correlated with achievement in engineering disciplines. Therefore, this study was carried out to study visualization skills level among students in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Skudai. 730 respondents engaged in this study which. covered thirteen faculties in this campus. The respondent in this study consists of flrst year student to fourth year student This quantitative study was analyzed using descriptive method. The instruments that had been used in this study were biographical data sheet and short version of visualization standard tests. The finding of this study revealed that student at VTM to be at moderately high skills in visualizations. Thus, the appropriate approach should be taking into account in order to apply the right technique in teaching to enhance student's visualization skills.