SPATIAL VISUALIZATION SKILLS OF HUNGARIAN AND TURKISH PROSPECTIVE MATHEMATICS TEACHERS

Resumo

This report investigated spatial visualization skills of two samples of junior level prospective elementary mathematics teachers from Hungary (n=78) and Turkey (n=81) who were enrolled to elementary mathematics teacher training departments. This work was a correlational study and in the work a reduced version of Heinrich spatial visualization test (HSVT), which is a paper-pencil test consists of 25 items of spatial visualization problems related to synthesis and decomposition of pieces, was used. According to results, there was a significant difference between Hungarian and Turkish prospective mathematics teachers’ scores of HSVT in favor of Hungarian sample and there was no gender difference for each and overall groups. Moreover, we finally give descriptive results of the least and the most items marked correctly in HSVT in a brief way.