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In this study of deaf college students' performance solving compare word problems, relational statements were either consistent or inconsistent with the arithmetic operation required for the solutions. The results support the consistency hypothesis Lewis and Mayer (1987) proposed based on research with hearing students. That is, deaf students were more likely to miscomprehend a relational statement and commit a reversal error when the required arithmetic operation was inconsistent with the statement's relational term (e.g., having to add when the relational term was less than). Also, the reversal error effect with inconsistent word problems was magnified when the relational statement was a marked term (e.g., a negative adjective such as less than) rather than an unmarked term (e.g., a positive adjective such as more than). Reading ability levels of deaf students influenced their performance in a number of ways. As predicted, there was a decrease in goal-monitoring errors, multiple errors, and the number of problems left blank as the reading levels of students increased. Contrary to expectations, higher reading skills did not affect the frequency of reversal errors. 相似文献
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In mathematical word problem solving, a relatively well-established finding is that more errors are made on word problems in which the relational keyword is inconsistent instead of consistent with the required arithmetic operation. This study aimed at reducing this consistency effect. Children solved a set of compare word problems before and after receiving a verbal instruction focusing on the consistency effect (or a control verbal instruction). Additionally, we explored potential transfer of the verbal instruction to word problems containing other relational keywords (e.g., larger/smaller than) than those in the verbal instruction (e.g., more/less than). Results showed a significant pretest-to posttest reduction of the consistency effect (but also an unexpected decrement on marked consistent problems) after the experimental verbal instruction but not after the control verbal instruction. No significant effects were found regarding transfer. It is concluded that our verbal instruction was useful for reducing the consistency effect, but future research should address how this benefit can be maintained without hampering performance on marked consistent problems. 相似文献
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Suneeta Kercood Sydney S. Zentall Megan Vinh Kinsey Tom-Wright 《Contemporary educational psychology》2012
The purpose of this theoretically-based study was to examine the effects of yellow-highlighting ‘relevant’ words and units within math word problems. Initial differences were documented between 10 girls at-risk for ADHD and 10 comparisons on the performance of group and individual assessments of math computations and word problems, as had previously been reported for boys. To address these deficits (faster speed and lower accuracy) for the at-risk group, these fourth-grade girls were randomly assigned word problems under two experimental conditions (highlight vs. nohighlight) within a counterbalanced condition- and form-order design. Intervention gains were (a) slower rate of performance, (b) decreased off-task behavior, and (c) improved problem solving performance, differentially for girls at-risk for ADHD when their materials were first presented with highlighting – the effects of which carried over to a non-highlight condition. The theoretical, practical, and future research implications of this study are addressed. 相似文献
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Anton J.H. Boonen Menno van der SchootFloryt van Wesel Meinou H. de VriesJelle Jolles 《Contemporary educational psychology》2013
Two component skills are thought to be necessary for successful word problem solving: (1) the production of visual-schematic representations and (2) the derivation of the correct relations between the solution-relevant elements from the text base. The first component skill is grounded in the visual–spatial domain, and presumed to be influenced by spatial ability, whereas the latter is seated in the linguistic–semantic domain, and presumed to be influenced by reading comprehension. These component skills as well as their underlying basic abilities are examined in 128 sixth grade students through path analysis. The results of the path analysis showed that both component skills and their underlying basic abilities explained 49% of students’ word problem solving performance. Furthermore, spatial ability and reading comprehension both had a direct and an indirect relation (via the component skills) with word problem solving performance. These results contribute to the development of instruction methods that help students using these components while solving word problems. 相似文献
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Solving arithmetic word problems such as “Mary has 25 marbles. She has 5 more marbles than John. How many marbles does John have?”, in which the relational term (more than) interferes with the arithmetic operation (subtraction), relies in part on the ability to inhibit an overlearned ‘add if more or subtract if less’ heuristic in children, adolescents and adults. Here, we used a negative priming (NP) paradigm to investigate whether experts in mathematics need to inhibit this heuristic when solving this type of arithmetic word problem. We found NP effects in experts in mathematics, but with a smaller amplitude than those in non-experts (N = 40). We replicate these results in a second experiment (N = 62) in which we matched experts and non-experts on general intelligence and inhibitory control ability. This suggests that experts also need to inhibit the ‘add if more or subtract if less’ heuristic to solve such problems but were more efficient at inhibiting the heuristic than non-experts. 相似文献
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Torulf Palm 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2008,67(1):37-58
The study presented in this paper seeks to investigate the impact of authenticity on the students’ disposition to make necessary
real world considerations in their word problem solving. The aim is also to gather information about the extent to which different
reasons for the students’ behaviors are responsible for not providing solutions that are consistent with the ‘real’ situations
described in the word problems. The study includes both written solutions to word problems and interview data from 161 5th
graders. The results show an impact of authenticity on both the presence of ‘real life’ considerations in the solution process
and on the proportion of written solutions that were really affected by these considerations. The students’ frequent use of
superficial solution strategies and their beliefs about mathematical word problem solving were found to be the main reasons
for providing solutions that are inconsistent with the situations described in the word problems. 相似文献
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Successful globalisation,education and sustainable development 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
This article examines the role of education in ‘successful globalisation’ and how this links with agendas for sustainable development. In the first part ‘successful globalisation’ is defined as economic growth combined with equality and social peace. Japan and the East Asian tiger economies – particularly South Korea and Taiwan – have been uniquely successful in the last half century in achieving both rapid economic growth over long periods and relative income equality and social cohesion. A host of factors have been responsible for this, including fortuitous geo-political circumstances and good timing. However, education has also played a major role. The article, based on a review of international and national research literatures, analyses how far China, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka have managed to develop their own forms of successful engagement with the global economy and what part education policy has played. In the second part we relate our concept of successful globalisation to the parallel discourses of sustainable development and education for sustainable development and reflect on what our notion of ‘successful globalisation’ can borrow from and lend to these literatures. 相似文献
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Effects of consistency and adequacy of language information on understanding elementary mathematics word problems 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
Two types of elementary mathematics word problems involving different linguistic structures were devised to examine the understanding
and solution of these problems by 91 Grade 3, 4, and 5 children divided into “more able” and “less able” subgroups. One task
consisted of 12 consistent and 12 inconsistent language problems on the basic processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication
and division. Another task consisted of a total of 36 word problems with 12 items each containing adequate, inadequate, and
redundant information, respectively, for problem solution. Subsidiary tasks of general ability, vocabulary, reading comprehension,
mathematics concepts, reflection on mathematics learning, and working memory were also administered to provide estimates of
the contribution of these “nonmathematics” tasks to the solution of elementary mathematics problems. Analyses of variance
and covariance of group data showed significant main effects of grade, consistency, and adequacy of linguistic information
in problem solution. Word problems containing inconsistent information were more difficult than those with consistent information.
Further, word problems containing inadequate and redundant information were more difficult to classify, and for the children
to explain, than those items with just enough information. Interviews with 12 individual children provided further insight
into their strategies for problem solutions. Both cognitive and developmental perspectives are important for mathematics learning
and teaching for children with or without learning disabilities. 相似文献
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On difficulties with fractions 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Klaus Hasemann 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》1981,12(1):71-87
A sample of less successful students (aged 12–15) was tested on the topic of fractions. The test paper presented diagrams, word problems, and computational questions. The analysis was designed to find out the specific difficulties and deficiencies of these children. It is shown that most of them are only able to apply remembered rules to the solution of the problems without knowing whether the rule works, i.e., their understanding is at most instrumental, but not relational. 相似文献
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Bengt-Olov Molander Ola Halldén Camilla Lindahl 《International Journal of Educational Research》2007,46(6):327-340
Ambiguity in group discussions as a resource for communication is studied. How students, aged 13–15 years, elaborate on the concept energy through dialogue is described. Group interviews were conducted with 15 hearing and 20 deaf students. Three probes were used to initiate discussions on different meanings of energy. The results show that the dialogues are less elaborated for deaf learners compared with hearing learners. It is argued that dialogues between hearing students have a greater chance of becoming ‘joint productive activity’, since the ambiguity of the word energy in Swedish lays the ground for shared meaning-making. To deaf learners, the ambiguity between the Swedish word and the signs used produces uncertainty and puts an end to further dialogue. 相似文献
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The present study investigated problem-solving behaviour in statistics by documenting differences between successful and unsuccessful students. Two methodological approaches were used. The first, based on studies by Chi, Glaser and Rees (1982), required students to identify key structural features of common problems. The second, based on further work by Chi, Bassok, Lewis, Reimann & Glaser (1989), used verbal protocol procedures to examine the processes employed when Good and Poor statistics students solve an ANOVA problem. It was expected that findings obtained by these earlier researchers in the domain of Physics would also apply in Statistics. Two groups of students in an undergraduate Psychology course were selected for the study. The first group (N=8) had performed well in a statistics unit, the second group (N=6) had failed that unit. In the first part of the study, no differences were found between groups on the task of identifying key structural features of common problems. In the second part of the study, protocol analyses showed that the Good students engaged in more concept-oriented solution behaviour, displayed more monitoring/judging behaviour, and asked more questions about the problem itself. These findings are similar to those obtained in other abstract knowledge domains such as Physics and Mathematics and indicate quite fundamental differences in the way in which competent and incompetent Statisics students solve Statistics problems. 相似文献
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Barend Vlaardingerbroek Saadeddine S. ShehabSahar K. Alameh 《International Journal of Educational Development》2011
This paper describes a study on examination room cheating during Lebanese Brevet and Baccalauréat examinations with a focus on ‘open cheating’ – malpractices which are aided and abetted by examination invigilators. Findings suggest that the problem is widespread and is largely attributable to the empathy invigilators feel with candidates. The collectivist ethos which has earlier been applied to collusion among cheating students appears to extend to invigilators during these high-stakes external examinations. It is suggested that behaviour modification strategies through organisational changes to the conduct of the examinations will be more effective than character development strategies in the short term. 相似文献
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David Carr 《International Journal of Educational Research》2011,50(3):171-176
This paper addresses conceptual issues concerning values in teaching and the professional education of teachers. Proceeding from rejection of a common (empiricist) account of values as subjective tastes, the paper distinguishes three common (more and less restrictive) concepts or senses of value, here referred to under the labels ‘principled preference’, ‘principled commitment’ and ‘principled disposition’. The paper proceeds to argue that, in light of certain distinctive features of teaching as a profession, the key values of teaching should be regarded as ‘principled dispositions’ (or, in another term, virtues). It is further argued that such professional teacher values are best appreciated under the three aspects of ‘intellectual virtues’, ‘procedural virtues’ and ‘moral virtues’ and the paper concludes with a brief exploration of the implications of this analysis for professional teacher education. 相似文献
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Young Filipino children are expected to solve mathematical word problems in English, which is not their mother tongue. Because of this, it is often assumed that Filipino children have difficulties in solving problems because they cannot read or comprehend what they have read. This study tested this assumption by determining whether presenting word problems in Filipino or reading them aloud to children in either language facilitated solution accuracy. Contrary to the initial hypothesis, reading word problems aloud did not seem to improve student performance (p > 0.10). In contrast, presenting word problems in Filipino significantly improved solution accuracy (p < 0.0001) and led to differences in error patterns – children were less likely to use an inappropriate arithmetic operation when problems were presented in Filipino. However, the language of the problem had minimal effects on the more difficult Compare problem type. Finally, the benefits of using Filipino were more pronounced for low‐achieving students who may have lower proficiency in English than their high‐achieving peers (p < 0.01). 相似文献
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This study considered how physical education teacher education students ‘perform’ their ‘selves’ within subject department offices during the practicum or ‘teaching practice’. The research was framed by a conceptual framework informed by the work of Goffman on ‘performance’ and ‘front’. The findings revealed three common performances across the whole group across all sites. These were: performance of sports talk, bodily performances, and performance of masculine repertoires. Such performances were considered to be inconsistent with the coursework ideals and principles within the teacher education programme but in step with the general ethos of most PE department offices. 相似文献
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Anne K. Rau Kristina Moll Korbinian Moeller Stefan Huber Margaret J. Snowling Karin Landerl 《Scientific Studies of Reading》2016,20(3):203-219
The current study compared eye fixation patterns during word and sentence processing in a consistent and an inconsistent alphabetic orthography. German and English children as well as adults matched on word reading ability read matched sentences while their eye fixation behavior was recorded. Results indicated that German children read in a more small-unit plodder-like style with more diligent first-pass reading and less rereading. In contrast, English children read in a more large-unit explorer-like style with a greater tendency to skip words, and more regressions. It is important that these cross-linguistic processing differences largely persisted in the adult readers. Orthographic consistency thus influences both local word recognition and global sentence processing in developing and skilled readers. 相似文献
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Terezinha Nunes Peter Bryant Deborah Evans Daniel Bell Rossana Barros 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2012,79(3):371-388
The basis of this intervention study is a distinction between numerical calculus and relational calculus. The former refers
to numerical calculations and the latter to the analysis of the quantitative relations in mathematical problems. The inverse
relation between addition and subtraction is relevant to both kinds of calculus, but so far research on improving children’s
understanding and use of the principle of inversion through interventions has only been applied to the solving of a + b − b = ?
sums. The main aim of the intervention described in this article was to study the effects of teaching children about the explicit
use of inversion as part of the relational calculus needed to solve inverse addition and subtraction problems using a calculator.
The study showed that children taught about relational calculus differed significantly from those who were taught numerical
procedures, and also that effects of the intervention were stronger when children were taught about relational calculus with
mixtures of indirect and direct word problems than when these two types of problem were given to them in separate blocks. 相似文献
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Three experiments investigated the effects of rime consistency on reading and spelling among developing readers ranging in
age from 7 to 11 years. Experiment 1 found that children read words with inconsistent feedforward mappings between orthography
and phonology (O → P) less accurately than consistent words. OP consistency interacted with chronological age, word frequency
and age-of-acquisition (AoA). The effect of OP consistency on reading was larger for younger children than for older children
and OP consistency had an effect for low frequency words and late-acquired words only. Experiment 2 found an effect of feedforward
consistency between phonology and orthography (P → O) on children’s spelling but no interaction between PO consistency and
AoA. Experiment 3 showed that the effects of feedforward consistency are independent of feedback consistency. Our results
challenge models of reading and spelling that assume feedforward consistency effects are influenced by the frequency of exposure
to words only and we suggest that interactions between consistency and AoA depends on the ratio of consistent to inconsistent
OP mappings. 相似文献
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Using a global–local dialectic approach, this paper traces the rise of the basic education programme in the 1980s and 1990s in Botswana and its subsequent attenuation in the 2000s. Amongst the local forces that led to the rise of BEP were Botswana's political project of nation-building; the country's dire human resources situation in the decades following Independence in 1966; and its propitious economic climate in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Global forces included the global circulation of the World Bank's educational discourse on the primacy of primary education as a public ‘investment’ option and Botswana's desire to be a member of the influential transnational social structure. BEP's attenuation can similarly be traced back to both local and global forces. Local forces included the growth of youth unemployment, and a sluggish economy. Global forces included the globalization of neo-liberalism which called for cost-sharing/recovery measures, and, ironically, Botswana's ‘promotion’ to a ‘middle income status’ country. While conceptually the attenuation represents a case of policy reversal and in some ways a sense of ‘loss’, empirically, the attenuation has not been of material consequence to access to ‘basic’ education. This is attributed to the ambiguous position (best captured by the term ‘doublethink’) the Botswana government1 has adopted in relation to the issue of school fees. 相似文献