Studying the effects of applied and professional education in the field of industrial design on psychomotor skills, by test of trace in mirror

Abstract Education researchers have always been concerned with the question that how effective academic educations are regarding improving the quality of artistic activities of university students. In this paper, we investigated effectiveness of classroom exercises and professional education on hand and motion control skills of Industrial Design students in Iran. In this study, authors have tried to answer this basic question that “how effective the classroom education has been in terms of improving hand skills of designers”. In this study, sixteen first-year and sixteen last-year industrial design students were selected and their hand skills were assessed based on their psychomotor function by using trace in mirror set.