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Craig, Tracy S. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2011
The aim of this article is to present a scheme for coding and categorizing students' written explanations of mathematical problem-solving activities. The scheme was used successfully within a study project carried out to determine whether student problem-solving behaviour could be positively affected by writing explanatory strategies to…
Descriptors: Student Problems, Problem Solving, Classification, Foreign Countries
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Sangwin, C. J. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2003
This article defines "higher level mathematical skills" and details an important class: that of "constructing instances" of mathematical objects satisfying certain properties. Comment is made on the frequency of higher level tasks in undergraduate work. We explain how such questions may be assessed "in practice" without the imposition on staff of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Education