An Assessment of the Sources of the Reversal Error through Classic and New Variables

Autor/inn/en	Soneira, Carlos; González-Calero, José Antonio; Arnau, David
Titel	An Assessment of the Sources of the Reversal Error through Classic and New Variables
Quelle	In: Educational Studies in Mathematics, 99 (2018) 1, S.43-56 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Soneira, Carlos)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1954
DOI	10.1007/s10649-018-9828-1
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teachers; Algebra; Equations (Mathematics); Comparative Analysis; Models; Word Order; Error Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Equations; Mathematics; Gleichungslehre; Analogiemodell; Wortfolge; Fehlertyp
Abstract	We present two empirical studies with 241 and 211 pre-service teachers that evaluate the explanatory power of word order matching and static comparison as models for the reversal error. We used tasks consisting of generating an algebraic equation representing a comparison given in a verbal statement. We introduce the types of magnitude involved in the statement as variables of analysis, something that was not previously tackled in previous works. Our results show that there are no statistical differences in the production of reversal errors depending on the information included in the name used to designate the variable, and that there are statistical differences depending on the syntactic configuration as well as the type of magnitude involved in the statement. The interpretation of these results indicates that both word order matching and static comparison have some potential as explanatory models for the reversal error, and that neither one of them, alone, is enough to completely explain the phenomenon. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01