Students’ ability to solving mental rotation items: Gender perspective within disadvantaged community

Destina WINARTI; Sitti PATAHUDDIN

Students’ ability to solving mental rotation items: Gender perspective within disadvantaged community

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Studies about gender difference in mental rotation ability are well documented in the context of developed countries; though not in developing or low-income ones. This paper examined students’ mental rotation ability as a function of gender in a disadvantaged community in Indonesia. The Spatial Reasoning Instrument (SRI) was used to test 334 students aged 13-14 years old in an untimed test. The characteristics of the SRI items were analysed in relation to the gender difference. The results showed a significant difference in favour of males on both 2D and 3D mental rotation tasks. The effect of the task direction was mediated by gender; the girls performed significantly lower than boys for the task with an implicit direction.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mathematics Education Research: Impacting Practice
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Editors	Gregory Hine, Susan Blackley, Audrey Cooke
Place of Publication	Adelaide, Australia
Publisher	Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Pages	771-778
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	42nd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia 2019 : Mathematics Education Research: Impacting Practice - Curtin University, Perth, Australia Duration: 30 Jun 2019 → 4 Jul 2019 http://www.promaco.com.au/events/MERGA/

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Conference	42nd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia 2019
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Perth
Period	30/06/19 → 4/07/19
Internet address	http://www.promaco.com.au/events/MERGA/

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WINARTI, D., & PATAHUDDIN, S. (2019). Students’ ability to solving mental rotation items: Gender perspective within disadvantaged community. In G. Hine, S. Blackley, & A. Cooke (Eds.), Mathematics Education Research: Impacting Practice: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (pp. 771-778). Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia. https://www.merga.net.au/common/Uploaded%20files/Annual%20Conference%20Proceedings/2019%20Annual%20Conference%20Proceedings/RP_Wintari_Patahuddin.pdf

WINARTI, Destina ; PATAHUDDIN, Sitti. / Students’ ability to solving mental rotation items : Gender perspective within disadvantaged community. Mathematics Education Research: Impacting Practice: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia. editor / Gregory Hine ; Susan Blackley ; Audrey Cooke. Adelaide, Australia : Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019. pp. 771-778

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WINARTI, D & PATAHUDDIN, S 2019, Students’ ability to solving mental rotation items: Gender perspective within disadvantaged community. in G Hine, S Blackley & A Cooke (eds), Mathematics Education Research: Impacting Practice: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia. Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 771-778, 42nd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia 2019
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Students’ ability to solving mental rotation items: Gender perspective within disadvantaged community. / WINARTI, Destina; PATAHUDDIN, Sitti.
Mathematics Education Research: Impacting Practice: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia. ed. / Gregory Hine; Susan Blackley; Audrey Cooke. Adelaide, Australia: Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019. p. 771-778.

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