Investigation of seventh-grade students' performance in translating among multiple representations of fractions

IF 3.7 2区教育学 Q1 Social Sciences

Thinking Skills and Creativity Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI:10.1016/j.tsc.2025.101809

Osman Birgin , Emine Eryılmaz

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate seventh-grade students’ performance in translating among multiple representations of fractions (symbolic, linguistic/verbal, visual, realistic). The participants consisted of 243 seventh-grade students (12–13 years old) from a public middle school in western Türkiye. Data were collected via the multiple representation translation instrument for fractions, which consisted of fifteen written response questions. The students' responses to the questions were scored according to the rubric. The data were analyzed via SPSS 17.0 with descriptive statistics, Friedman's test and the Wilcoxon signed rank test. The results of the study indicated that students' translation performance differed significantly among the multiple representations of fractions. The area models were used significantly more often than the set, length, and volume models for the visualization of fractions. Students performed significantly better in translating the symbolic-visual representations of fractions than in translating the linguistic-visual and realistic-visual representations. Compared with the length and volume models, the students performed better in translating from the area and set models of fractions to symbolic, linguistic, and realistic representations.

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七年级学生分数多表示间翻译成绩的调查

摘要本研究旨在探讨七年级学生在分数的多种表征（符号表征、语言/口头表征、视觉表征、现实表征）之间的翻译表现。参与者包括243名来自西部基耶一所公立中学的七年级学生（12-13岁）。通过分数的多重表示翻译工具收集数据，该工具由15个书面回答问题组成。学生们对问题的回答是根据题目打分的。采用SPSS 17.0统计软件进行数据分析，采用描述性统计、Friedman检验和Wilcoxon符号秩检验。研究结果表明，在分数的多重表征中，学生的翻译成绩存在显著差异。面积模型比集合、长度和体积模型更常用于分数的可视化。学生在翻译分数的符号-视觉表征方面的表现明显优于翻译语言-视觉表征和现实-视觉表征。与长度和体积模型相比，学生在将分数的面积和集合模型转换为符号、语言和现实表示方面表现得更好。

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Thinking Skills and Creativity EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

6.40

自引率

16.20%

发文量

172

审稿时长

76 days

期刊介绍： Thinking Skills and Creativity is a new journal providing a peer-reviewed forum for communication and debate for the community of researchers interested in teaching for thinking and creativity. Papers may represent a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches and may relate to any age level in a diversity of settings: formal and informal, education and work-based.