Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27884
- Title
- Measuring 3-D understanding on the web and in the laboratory
- Author/Creator
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Sutton, Ken;
Heathcote, A.;
Bore, Miles
- Description
- We describe the ongoing development of a psychometric test to measure understanding of three-dimensional (3-D) concepts represented in drawings. The test consists of five subtests requiring participants to complete timed choice tasks previously used in experimental investigations of 3-D understanding, and a new subtest based on the idea of true length. We examined performance in terms of accuracy and response time using both laboratory- and Web-based methods of delivery. Reliability coefficients were high for both methods (.90 and .96, respectively, for accuracy, and .87 and .95, respectively, for response time measures), but Web-based participants produced consistently lower overall scores. Issues regarding the deployment of, and recruitment for, complex Web-based experimental tasks, and factors affecting comparisons between Web and laboratory results, such as the presence of an experimenter, and interface and sample differences, are discussed.
- Relation
- Behavior Research Methods Vol. 39, Issue 4, p. 926-939
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03192988
- Date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Psychonomic Society
- Keyword(s)
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three-dimensional concepts;
3-D understanding;
measurement
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Rights
- The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27884
- Identifier
- ISSN:1554-351X
- Language
- eng
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