Computerizing the Mental Rotations Test: are gender differences maintained?
| Autor: | Maureen A. Harke, Jonathon R. Shelley, John S. Monahan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Male Psychometrics Rotation Data Collection Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Standard score Developmental psychology Test (assessment) Form Perception Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Reference Values Task Performance and Analysis Developmental and Educational Psychology Imagination Humans Female Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology General Psychology Software |
| Zdroj: | Behavior research methods. 40(2) |
| ISSN: | 1554-351X |
| Popis: | A computerized version of the Revised Mental Rotations Test using touch-screen technology was tested and compared with the paper-and-pencil version. One hundred ninety-two participants--133 women and 59 men--took the paper-and-pencil version; 91 participants--47 women and 44 men--took the touch-screen version. Standard scores x test half and the entire test, proportion of errors x type, and proportion correct x alternative type were calculated. The expected gender differences occurred in standard scores and proportion correct x alternative type for both test versions. Men performed better than women in all instances, but gender difference effect sizes (measured by Cohen's d) were reduced from large for the paper-and-pencil version to medium for the computerized version. Scores declined at least nominally from the first to the second half of both versions, and significantly for women taking the paper-and-pencil version. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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