Bridging the Spatial Visualisation Skills Gap Through Engineering Drawing using the Whole-to-parts Approach

Summary This article reports on an attempt to bridge the spatial visualisation skills gap between 13 novices and 16 experts in one class of first-year civil engineering students. The aim of the study was to test the effectiveness of the whole-to-parts approach in bridging the skills gap between them. The results show that the teaching approach is capable of accelerating the learning of engineering drawing skills, and the approach has the potential to bridge the spatial visualisation skills gap between novices and experts in one semester course of study.

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