Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment The CTY Spatial Test Battery (STB)

"Does your child have a special ability for visualizing how objects look from different angles? Understand how complex systems operate? Readily remember faces, objects, or interesting designs? Prefer visual images and graphic displays over text?

Answering yes to one or more of these questions may mean a child has a high level of spatial ability. CTY�s Spatial Test Battery (STB), given via computer at hundreds of locations around the United States, can help determine a child�s ability in this potentially useful and defined area.

Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth developed the STB after seven years of research on the critical components of scientific innovation."

This is new to me, and I thought I'd share. Subtests include: Visual Memory, Surface Development, Block Rotation and Perspectives.

A high score on the SAT verbal could suggest acceleration in English and history, and on the SAT math acceleration in math and science (especially physics).

If someone does well on the STB, what does that say about the courses he or she should take?

Bostonian,

Engineering electives, art, design, drafting...any class requiring a high degree of visual-spatial ability.