CONSTRUCTED-RESPONSE MATHEMATICS TASKS STUDY

Automated Scoring of Constructed-Response Literacy and Mathematics Items

Asymmetry in student achievement on multiple-choice and constructed-response items in reversible mathematics processes

In this paper we report the results of an experiment designed to test the hypothesis that when faced with a question involving the inverse direction of a reversible mathematical process, students solve a multiple-choice version by verifying the answers presented to them by the direct method, not by undertaking the actual inverse calculation. Participants responded to an online test containing e...

The Constructed Objectivity of Mathematics and the Cognitive

Introduction This essay concerns the nature and the foundation of mathematical knowledge, broadly construed. The main idea is that mathematics is a human construction, but a very peculiar one, as it is grounded on forms of "invariance" and "conceptual stability" that single out the mathematical conceptualization from any other form of knowledge, and give unity to it. Yet, this very conceptualiz...

Co-constructed Narratives in Online, Collaborative Mathematics Problem-Solving

Our approach to the study of learning of mathematical problem-solving extends the notion of narrative learning environments to include the dynamics of collaborative dialogs and related emergent narratives. This perspective favours the conception of the dialogical aspects of interaction as shared achievements of coparticipants and as central meaning-making procedures, based on our qualitative an...

Mathematics anxiety reduces default mode network deactivation in response to numerical tasks

Mathematics anxiety is negatively related to mathematics performance, thereby threatening the professional success. Preoccupation with the emotional content of the stimuli may consume working memory resources, which may be reflected in decreased deactivation of areas associated with the default mode network (DMN) activated during self-referential and emotional processing. The common problem is ...