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Ms. Jeenath Rahaman
Empirical studies of students’ conception of Area-measurement, and their implications for Mathematics Education
The thesis reports empirical studies to understand students' conception of area measurement (AM), primarily identifying the cognitive processes 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, considering a naturalistic paradigm. The studies highlighted various issues for AM conception and consolidated them under a network model of AM. The second study follows Vygotskian social constructivism theories and uses argumentation as a conceptual and analytical framework. The study adopts the teaching design experiment methodology, where novel tasks were designed and tried in the classroom. 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. This study investigates 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.