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Empirical studies of students’ conception of Area-measurement, and their implications for Mathematics Education
Ms. Jeenath Rahaman
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The thesis reports a set of studies aimed at understanding students' conception of area measurement (AM), particularly in terms of understanding the cognitive processes (rather than outcomes) and their implications for mathematics education research (MER). The thesis broadly follows three major research trends in MER – constructivism, social constructivism, and enactivism. The first set of studies draws mainly from Piagetian theory of individual construction to understand students' conception of AM under a naturalistic paradigm. The studies highlighted a range of issues for AM conception and consolidated them together under a network model of AM. The second set of studies follows Vygotskian social interaction and social constructivism theories. That uses a teaching-design experiment and includes a set of tasks evolved from previous studies in a classroom, where argumentation framework is used both as a conceptual and analytical framework. The study highlights students' conceptual difficulties in AM and the process of collective argumentation in addressing them in a classroom. The third set of studies has evolved from the recent advancements in enactivist theories of cognition and their application in mathematics education. These studies investigate the role of material interaction (or physical manipulations) in solving AM tasks using an eye-tracking method and found eye-movement patterns that indicate a more efficient strategy among students who used specific manipulations over others.
https://hbcse-tifr-res-in.zoom.us/j/97874270346?pwd=MHRvL0lOK3p6UWRGUU5SQmszL0c5dz09
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