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The aim of this research is to explore preservice mathematics teachers’ self-report levels on spatial ability, and the effects of gender, age and preschool education on self-report levels. This research is a quantitative study that purposes to compare sub-groups of the participants, who are preservice mathematics teachers enrolled to a government university’s faculty of education. A total of 165 preservice mathematics teachers with 130 females and 35 males participated in the study. The data were collected through spatial ability self-report scale. In order to analyse the data, descriptive statistics, Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality analysis, independent samples t-test, one-way analysis of variance, Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests were used. According to results, preservice mathematics teachers’ self-report levels on spatial ability were high and there was not any effect of gender on self-report levels of spatial ability. However, there was a significant effect of preschool education of a certain part of the scale.

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