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Candace Walkington; Matthew Bernacki; Elizabeth Leyva; Brooke Istas – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2025
Algebra has been identified as a gatekeeper to careers in STEM, but little research exists on how algebra appears for practitioners in the workplace. Surveys and interviews were conducted with 77 STEM practitioners from a variety of fields, examining how they reported using algebraic functions in their work. Survey and interview reports suggest…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics, Computation, Mathematical Formulas
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Battaglia, Onoforio Rosario; Di Paola, Benedetto; Fazio, Claudio – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
A relevant aim of research in education is to find and study the reasoning lines that students deploy when dealing with problematic situations. This can be done through an analysis of the answers students give to a questionnaire. In this paper, we discuss some methodological aspects involved in the quantitative analysis of a questionnaire by means…
Descriptors: Correlation, Coding, Statistical Analysis, Questionnaires