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Table 2 Descriptive statistics by participant sex for T1 and T2

From: Beyond small-scale spatial skills: Navigation skills and geoscience education

 

Male

Mean (SD)

Female

Mean (SD)

T1

T2

T1

T2

Within-route

20.16 (11.83)

16.36 (9.91)

24.85 (13.25)

21.06 (10.41)

Between-route

42.25 (15.24)

36.17 (15.71)

47.58 (12.84)

43.09 (15.34)

Model-building

0.5582 (0.2780)

0.5855 (0.3195)

0.4478 (0.2774)

0.5246 (0.2911)

MRT

35.89 (22.49)

38.47 (26.40)

24.12 (18.30)

30.20 (23.77)

SWM

27.08 (7.93)

30.38 (8.84)

25.15 (9.23)

27.84 (9.11)

WRAT

48.29 (4.97)

–

46.44 (5.73)

–

PSAS

4.74 (0.76)

–

4.80 (0.76)

–

PVAS

4.66 (0.92)

–

4.55 (0.98)

–

  1. MRT Mental Rotation Test, PSAS Philadelphia Spatial Ability Scale, PVAS Philadelphia Verbal Ability Scale, SD standard deviation, SWM Spatial Working Memory, T1 pre test (start of academic semester), T2 post test (end of academic semester), WRAT Wide Range Achievement Test