Make a drawing. Effects of strategic knowledge, drawing accuracy, and type of drawing on students’ mathematical modelling performance
- Rellensmann, Johanna Universität Münster
- Schukajlow, Stanislaw Universität Münster
- Leopold, Claudia Universität Freiburg im Üechtland
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2016
Published in:
- Educational Studies in Mathematics. - 2016, vol. 95, no. 1, p. 53-78
English
Drawing strategies are widely used as a powerful tool for promoting students’ learning and problem solving. In this article, we report the results of an inferential mediation analysis that was applied to investigate the roles that strategic knowledge about drawing and the accuracy of different types of drawings play in mathematical modelling performance. Sixty-one students were asked to create a drawing of the situation described in a task (situational drawing) and a drawing of the mathematical model described in the task (mathematical drawing) before solving modelling problems. A path analysis showed that strategic knowledge about drawing was positively related to students’ modelling performance. This relation was mediated by the type and accuracy of the drawings that were generated. The accuracy of situational drawing was related only indirectly to performance. The accuracy of mathematical drawings, however, was strongly related to students’ performance. We complemented the quantitative approach with a qualitative in-depth analysis of students’ drawings in order to explain the relations found in our study. Implications for teaching practices and future research are discussed.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Centre d'enseignement et de recherche pour la formation à l'enseignement au secondaire
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Education, teaching
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 327795
- DOI 10.1007/s10649-016-9736-1
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/308420
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