Which One Is the "Best": A Cross-National Comparative Study of Students' Strategy Evaluation in Equation Solving

Autor/inn/en	Jiang, Ronghuan; Star, Jon R.; Hästö, Peter; Li, Lijia; Liu, Ru-de; Tuomela, Dimitri; Prieto, Nuria Joglar; Palkki, Riikka; Abánades, Miguel Á.; Pejlare, Johanna
Titel	Which One Is the "Best": A Cross-National Comparative Study of Students' Strategy Evaluation in Equation Solving
Quelle	In: International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 21 (2023) 4, S.1127-1151 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1571-0068
DOI	10.1007/s10763-022-10282-6
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Comparative Education; Middle School Students; High School Students; Learning Strategies; Problem Solving; Equations (Mathematics); Evaluation Criteria; Cross Cultural Studies; Sweden; Finland; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Problemlösen; Equations; Mathematics; Gleichungslehre; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Schweden; Finnland; Spanien
Abstract	This cross-national study examined students' evaluation of strategies for solving linear equations, as well as the extent to which their evaluation criteria were related to their use of strategies and/or aligned with experts' views about which strategy is the best. A total of 792 middle school and high school students from Sweden, Finland, and Spain participated in the study. Students were asked to solve twelve equations, provide multiple solving strategies for each equation, and select the best strategy among those they produced for each equation. Our results indicate that students' evaluation of strategies was not strongly related to their initial preferences for using strategies. Instead, many students' criteria were aligned with the flexibility goals, in that a strategy that takes advantages of task context was more highly valued than a standard algorithm. However, cross-national differences in strategy evaluation indicated that Swedish and Finnish students were more aligned with flexibility goals in terms of their strategy evaluation criteria, while Spanish students tended to consider standard algorithms better than other strategies. We also found that high school students showed more flexibility concerns than middle school students. Different emphases in educational practice and prior knowledge might explain these cross-national differences as well as the findings of developmental changes in students' evaluation criteria. (As Provided).
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