Personal Need for Structure and Fractions in Mathematical Education
The research was aimed at finding relations between mathematical knowledge and cognitive individual variable. We realized the experiment with 162 students of the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia. We had two variables—the personal need for structure (PNS) as a cognitive-indiv...
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| author | Valéria Švecová Ľubomír Rybanský Gabriela Pavlovičová |
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| description | The research was aimed at finding relations between mathematical knowledge and cognitive individual variable. We realized the experiment with 162 students of the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia. We had two variables—the personal need for structure (PNS) as a cognitive-individual variable and knowledge of the fraction as a mathematical variable. The relationships between the factors of the personal need for structure scale and the knowledge of fractions were determined by the IRT model. We have proven a negative correlation between the successful solving of fraction test and score in the PNS scale. This means that the higher the success rate of solving the fraction tasks, the lower the overall score on the personal need for structure scale and its subfactors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d343fe61373a4ff3b763c1558a4147df2023-11-24T07:22:11ZengMDPI AGEuropean Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education2174-81442254-96252022-04-0112544845710.3390/ejihpe12050033Personal Need for Structure and Fractions in Mathematical EducationValéria Švecová0Ľubomír Rybanský1Gabriela Pavlovičová2Department of Mathematics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Tr. A Hlinku 1, 949 74 Nitra, SlovakiaDepartment of Mathematics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Tr. A Hlinku 1, 949 74 Nitra, SlovakiaDepartment of Mathematics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Tr. A Hlinku 1, 949 74 Nitra, SlovakiaThe research was aimed at finding relations between mathematical knowledge and cognitive individual variable. We realized the experiment with 162 students of the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia. We had two variables—the personal need for structure (PNS) as a cognitive-individual variable and knowledge of the fraction as a mathematical variable. The relationships between the factors of the personal need for structure scale and the knowledge of fractions were determined by the IRT model. We have proven a negative correlation between the successful solving of fraction test and score in the PNS scale. This means that the higher the success rate of solving the fraction tasks, the lower the overall score on the personal need for structure scale and its subfactors.https://www.mdpi.com/2254-9625/12/5/33personal need for structuremathematical knowledgefraction testSfard’s theory of reificationthe IRT model |
| spellingShingle | Valéria Švecová Ľubomír Rybanský Gabriela Pavlovičová Personal Need for Structure and Fractions in Mathematical Education European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education personal need for structure mathematical knowledge fraction test Sfard’s theory of reification the IRT model |
| title | Personal Need for Structure and Fractions in Mathematical Education |
| title_full | Personal Need for Structure and Fractions in Mathematical Education |
| title_fullStr | Personal Need for Structure and Fractions in Mathematical Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Personal Need for Structure and Fractions in Mathematical Education |
| title_short | Personal Need for Structure and Fractions in Mathematical Education |
| title_sort | personal need for structure and fractions in mathematical education |
| topic | personal need for structure mathematical knowledge fraction test Sfard’s theory of reification the IRT model |
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