Levels of engineering thinking among students of the Technical Institute

Abstract

The most important objective of education is the
manipulation of knowledge in all fields through
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acquaintance of the educational methods the which could
enrich them with notions, imagination, and focusing on
thinking the skills. The significance of the research paper
embarks from the importance of the technical educational
outcomes , as well as the significance of engineering in
improving geometric thinking. The research paper aims at
identifying the "levels of geometric thinking among the
technical institute students/ Baquba" via their answers in the
geometric thinking test that is comprising of (48) multiple
choice items distributed on the first four levels set by Van
Hiele (recognition, analysis, ordering, deduction).
Moreover, the validity of the test is examined by a group of
experts to calculate the item-to-item relation, item-to-scale
relation, item-to-field relation and field-to-field relation by
applying it to a sample of (30) male and female students.
Next, the test is applied on a sample of (140) second year
students/ Department of Electricity. The results showed that
(31.4%) of students are below the recognition of the level,
(10%) of them are in the recognition level, (5%) are in the
analysis level, (3.5%) in the ordering level, and
finally(3.5%) in the deduction level.