Using Courseware Instruction to Improve Junior High School Students’ Spatial Visualization Skills

Samuel Adaboh; Robert Akpalu; Isaac Owusu-Darko; Samuel Stevens Boateng

Samuel Adaboh, Robert Akpalu, Isaac Owusu-Darko, Samuel Stevens Boateng

Article Type: Research Article
International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2017 - Volume 12 Issue 3, pp. 353-365
Published Online: 18 Jun 2017
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In-text citation: (Adaboh et al., 2017)
Reference: Adaboh, S., Akpalu, R., Owusu-Darko, I., & Boateng, S. S. (2017). Using Courseware Instruction to Improve Junior High School Students’ Spatial Visualization Skills. International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 12(3), 353-365.

AMA

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Reference: Adaboh S, Akpalu R, Owusu-Darko I, Boateng SS. Using Courseware Instruction to Improve Junior High School Students’ Spatial Visualization Skills. INT ELECT J MATH ED. 2017;12(3), 353-365.

Chicago

In-text citation: (Adaboh et al., 2017)
Reference: Adaboh, Samuel, Robert Akpalu, Isaac Owusu-Darko, and Samuel Stevens Boateng. "Using Courseware Instruction to Improve Junior High School Students’ Spatial Visualization Skills". International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education 2017 12 no. 3 (2017): 353-365.

Harvard

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Reference: Adaboh, S., Akpalu, R., Owusu-Darko, I., and Boateng, S. S. (2017). Using Courseware Instruction to Improve Junior High School Students’ Spatial Visualization Skills. International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 12(3), pp. 353-365.

MLA

In-text citation: (Adaboh et al., 2017)
Reference: Adaboh, Samuel et al. "Using Courseware Instruction to Improve Junior High School Students’ Spatial Visualization Skills". International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, vol. 12, no. 3, 2017, pp. 353-365.

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Abstract

This study basically focused on the use of instruction to assist Junior High School (JHS 1) students at Dodowa Presbyterian Basic School (Ghana), to achieve high spatial visualization skills which will eventually translate into their mathematics achievement. The test instrument used for the data collection was an adapted form of the Middle Grades Mathematics Project (MGMP) spatial visualization test which comprised of 40 items with an internal consistency reliability of 0.81. The simple random sampling technique was used to assign 50 students to control and experimental groups. Pretest-posttest control group design was employed for the study. A paired-sample t-test and split plot ANOVA were used to analyze the data. The results showed that even though there was some improvement in spatial visualization skills across board (both control and experimental groups), there was a statistically significant improvement in spatial visualization skills among the experimental group. The study also indicated that there were no gender differences in spatial visualization skills both at the pretest and posttest levels.

Keywords

spatial visualization skills spatial ability guided discovery teaching method pre-test and post-test

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