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Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth, Ed.; Yudelson, Michael, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
The 11th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2018) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Templeton Landing in Buffalo, New York. This year's EDM conference was highly competitive, with 145 long and short paper submissions. Of these, 23 were accepted as full papers and 37…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Computer Science Education, Program Proposals
Knoth, Russell L.; Benassi, Victor A. – 1987
The purpose of the study was to determine whether students had knowledge of the extension rule (the conjunction of two or more events cannot be greater than the probability of any one of those events) and understanding of conjunction by giving a test of multiplicative probabilities. Involved were 598 students enrolled in introductory psychology…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Educational Research, Error Patterns, Higher Education
Berger, Dale E.; Wilde, Jeffrey M. – 1984
Algebra word problems were analyzed in terms of the information integration tasks that are required to solve the problems. These tasks were classified into three levels: value assignment, value derivation, and equation construction. Novices (35 first year algebra students) and experts (13 analytic geometry students) were compared on the proportion…
Descriptors: Algebra, Educational Research, Error Patterns, Mathematics Instruction
Quintero, Ana Helvia – 1984
This study focused on analyzing children's difficulties with two-step mathematical word problems. Seventy-one fifth-grade children in Puerto Rico were individually observed solving five problems. Two of these were two-step problems; the remaining three were one-step problems with the same mathematical structures as the components of the two-step…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary School Mathematics, Error Patterns, Grade 5

Clements, M. A. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1982
An operational definition of careless errors was provided and used in an investigation of 50 children attending an international primary school in Lae, Papua New Guinea. Results indicated that mathematically competent and confident children tend to make a greater proportion of errors than other children. (MP)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Error Patterns

Clement, John – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1982
Data indicate that relatively advanced science-oriented college students can experience serious difficulties in symbolizing certain meaningful relationships with algebraic equations. Reversal errors in formulating equations were seen to stem from two main sources: (1) a syntactic word order matching process and (2) a semantic static comparison…
Descriptors: Algebra, Cognitive Processes, College Mathematics, Educational Research
Bull, Elizabeth Kay – 1984
The goal of this study was to find a way to quantify three criteria of representational quality, described by Greeno, so that it would be possible to examine statistically the relationship between representational quality and other variables related to problem solution. The sample consisted of 18 college students, 84 percent of whom had…
Descriptors: Algebra, Cognitive Processes, College Mathematics, Educational Research
Doyle, Mercedes; Graesser, Arthur, II – 1978
Verbal protocols were collected from math-anxious and math-comfortable college students while they solved algebra problems. These protocols were then examined for differences in problem-solving processes. Differences occurred in the use of two basic strategies: generating values and symbolic transformations. Math-anxious students generated more…
Descriptors: Algebra, Anxiety, College Mathematics, Concept Formation
Lewis, Clayton – 1980
Solving equations in elementary algebra requires knowledge of the permitted operations, and knowledge of what operation to use at a given point in the solution process. While just these kinds of knowledge would be adequate for an ideal solver, human solvers appear to need and use other kinds of knowledge. First, many errors seem to indicate that…
Descriptors: Algebra, Cognitive Processes, College Mathematics, Educational Research

Knifong, J. Dan; Holtan, Boyd D. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1977
Interviews conducted with each of 35 sixth graders who made errors on the Metropolitan Achievement Test showed little evidence that poor reading abilities affected children's success on word problems. (DT)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Patterns
Quintero, Ana Helvia – 1983
This work studies the difficulties children have solving two-step word problems of a given structure (e.g., 7 lollypops/2 chocolate bars X 6 chocolate bars). Thirty-six children between the ages of 9 and 14 years were individually observed solving problems of the above type. Other tasks, repetition of the problem and model recognition, were used…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics

Callahan, Leroy G., Ed. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1987
Some research about students with learning disabilities that textbook publishers need to consider as they revise problem-solving materials is briefly cited. (MNS)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Error Patterns

Zehavi, Nurit; And Others – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1988
Assignment projects for high-achieving ninth graders were developed, and a comparative evaluation study indicated that they were effective. It bacame clear that teachers needed more practical support, so a diagnostic study was undertaken, leading to the establishment of a link between a categorization of student difficulties and a hierarchy of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Error Patterns, Evaluation, Grade 9
Kouba, Vicky L.; And Others – 1980
Reported are data from the first individual interview conducted in 1978 as part of a 3-year study on addition and subtraction using verbal problem solving. The research program is attempting to relate pupil performance on selected arithmetic skills to pupil cognitive processes, instructional materials, and teachers' classroom behaviors. From three…
Descriptors: Addition, Educational Research, Elementary School Mathematics, Error Patterns
Kouba, Vicky L.; Moser, James M. – 1980
Reported are data from the second individual interview conducted in 1979 as part of a 3-year study on addition and subtraction using verbal problem solving. From three schools in Wisconsin that used the Developing Mathematical Processes program, l50 first-grade children were individually administered six problem types (two solvable by addition and…
Descriptors: Addition, Educational Research, Elementary School Mathematics, Error Patterns