Should Learning (Mathematics) at School Aim at Knowledge or at Competences?

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Should Learning (Mathematics) at School Aim at Knowledge or at Competences?

Original language description

The Czech school reform tends to aim at competences rather than at knowledge. We attempt to bring some evidence that the mathematics competences is a vague term without precise scientific as well as practically useful contents. Based on the analysis of the Czech data from PISA 2003, we could not substantiate the differences in teaching practices referred by students with different mathematics test results, i. e. allegedly with different levels of math competences. Thus, any more or less effective competence-teaching practices could not be identified. Similarly, in TIMSS 2007, we did not find any differences in teaching practices between the Czech "pro-reform" and "antireform" teachers. We further investigated the reformists' requirement to set up the real life, on the one hand, a starting point of the school teaching/learning, and, on the other hand, its ultimate goal. In the studies exploring the issue, we found no definite results in favour of the use of real-world problems in school

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AN - Psychology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP407%2F11%2F1740" target="_blank" >GAP407/11/1740: Critical areas of mathematics at the primary school - analysis of teachers' didactic practices</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Orbis scholae

ISSN

1802-4637

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

22-39

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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