Published In
Mathematics Education
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2015
Subjects
Mathematics -- Study and teaching, Multiplication, Fractions--Study and teaching, Educational evaluation
Abstract
Units coordination refers to students’ abilities to create units and maintain their relationships with other units that they contain or constitute. In recent research, units coordination has arisen as a key construct that mediates opportunities for student learning across several domains of mathematics, including fractions knowledge and algebraic reasoning. To date, assessments of students’ stages of units coordinating ability have relied upon clinical interviews or teaching experiments whose time-intensive nature precludes opportunities for conducting large-scale studies. We introduce a written instrument that teachers and researchers can use with large populations of students. We report on the reliability and validity of assessments based on the instrument.
DOI
10.12973/mathedu.2015.108a
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/17713
Citation Details
Norton, A., Boyce, S., Phillips, N., Anwyll, T., Ulrich, C. & Wilkins, J.L.M. (2015). A Written Instrument for Assessing Students’ Units Coordination Structures. IEJME-Mathematics Education, 10(2), 111-136.
Description
Copyright © 2015 by iSER, International Society of Educational Research. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Originally published in Mathematics Education and can be found online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.12973/mathedu.2015.108a