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Many cooperating authors are interested in collecting data on their instruments which will make them more useful to others. Therefore, it is to the advantage of everyone concerned - authors, present users, and users in the future - that purchasers recognize their professional responsibility to initiate such communication, The address of the author of this instrument as of the date on which this series was released: Educational Testing Service Test Collection Princeton, NJ 085411 TC009199 Purdue Spatial Visualization Test by Roland Guay, 1976. DESCRIPTION: The Purdue Spatial Visualization Test consists of three parts: Developments, Rotations, and Views. Developments consists of 12 questions designed to see how well subjects can visualize the folding of developments into three-dimensional objects. Rotations consists of 12 questions designed to see how well subjects can vsualize the rotation of three-dimensional objects. Views consists of 12 questions designed to see how well subjects can visualize what three-dimensional objects look like from various viewing positions. There are also three separate 3O- item test booklets: one each for Developments, Rotations, and Views. The tests are suitable for use with subjects ages 13 or older. ADMINISTRATION: The tests can be either group or individually administered. SCORING AND INTERPRETATION: The scores are the number of items answered correctly. Ther is a scoring key available, listed under MATERIALS. TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS: There is no information on technical characteristics. MATERIALS: Test, Purdue Spatial Visualization Test; Test, Visualization of Developments; Test, Visualization of Rotations; Test, Visualization of Views; Answer Key REFERENCES: Guay, Roland B. Spatial Abilitv Measurement: A Critique and an Alternative. April 1980. 19p. ED 189 166. TEST PURDUE SPATIAL VISUALIZATION TEST I i I I I I I I I I I i ! I I I Roland Guay , PhD ho NOT open this booklet until you are instructed to do so. @ Copyright b Purdue Research Foundation, 1976 The ifirSt SeCtiOA Of this test COASiStS Of 12 qUeStiOnS designed t0 See hOW WEdl YOU CaA ViSUai_iZe the fO%diAg Of developments into three-dimensional objects. %Rown below is an example sf the type of question incbuded in the first section of this test, presented is a deve~opmeat and five three-dimensional objects. The development shOWs the inside surfaces of a, three-dimensional object g The shaded portion 0% the development indicates the bottQm surface 2-f thi three-dimensiona% -object. You are to: 34 picture in wyour mind what the deve%9pment l_ooks like Fd=len fslded ia;to a thr-ee -dimensisna~ object; 2, sd_ect from among the five objects (A, B, Cp B, 0% E) the one that hooks like the folded deve%opment, c D E During the test you are to show ycmr choices on the ans-wer card by making a heay bPack mark in the spexe with the same letter 8S the zx-lswer you choose0 E E ,J ‘, make any marks The second section csnsists Qf I.2 questions designed tQ see hQW we1% yxl can visualize the rotatim sf three-dimensigna$ objects e Shim below is an example of the type of question insluded in the second sectisn. You are to: ‘ r le study %mw the objet% in the top Line of the question is rotated ; 2, piCt-,Ure in ycm-9 mind wha t the object shown in the middle line of $he question %soks %ike -when rota-ted in exactly the same manner; 3, select from among the five drawings (A, B, 6, II, cc E) given in tl=L e b~t&3rn Line of the question the one that looks like the d3ject 2?&3ked in the cszrect pssitisn,, ~dk-m% is the cmrrec% answer $8 the example shsvn3 above~ a t , - A 8 TS c D E t