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Salgado, Felipe Almuna; Stacey, Kaye – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
This paper reports how the context in which a mathematics item is embedded impacts on students' performance. The performance of Year 10 students on four PISA items was compared with performance on variants with more familiar contexts. Performance was not better when they solved items with more familiar contexts but there was some evidence that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Performance Factors, Test Items, Context Effect