Assessing future teachers' knowledge on fractions: written tests vs Concept Cartoons

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7160/eriesj.2018.110301" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.7160/eriesj.2018.110301</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7160/eriesj.2018.110301" target="_blank" >10.7160/eriesj.2018.110301</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessing future teachers' knowledge on fractions: written tests vs Concept Cartoons

Original language description

The contribution investigates opportunities that an educational tool called Concept Cartoons can offer in future teachers&apos; education, namely in comparison with word problems in standard written tests. The referred empirical study was conducted in two separated consecutive stages, with two groups of future primary school teachers (the first one from the Czech Republic, and the second one from Slovakia). The participants of the first stage solved four word problems (T1, T2, T3, T4) with increasing difficulty within the written test, and a problem with a similar structure and difficulty as T3 but in the Concept Cartoon form. The second stage of the study served as a complementary stage, its participants solved only the word problem T3 and the Concept Cartoon. In both stages, the comparison of results and solution procedures revealed many participants who mastered the word problem(s) but displayed a fundamental misconception when working with the Concept Cartoon. Two thirds of the participants presented non-corresponding responses to these two corresponding tasks: they solved one of them correctly and the other one incorrectly. All of the problems in the study were based on the part-whole interpretation of fractions, the revealed misconception consisted of incorrect determination of the whole.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science

ISSN

2336-2375

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

45-52

UT code for WoS article

000446139600002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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