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Analysis and Comparison on measurement Characteristics for Elementary Students with and without Mathematics Difficulties

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2011, 12(4), pp.235-268
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

김주현 1 Ae-Hwa Kim 2

1대송고등학교
2단국대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to analyze and to compare the characteristics of the ‘measurement’ for the two groups of elementary school students who have difficulties in mathematics and who do not. Based on the 7th- revised educational curriculum, the ‘measurement’ test was composed of the eight measurement domain: length, mass, area, volume of liquid, volume, time, angle, and estimation. A total of 166 elementary students from the 4th graders to 6th graders (83 students with difficulties in mathematics and 83 students without difficulties in mathematics) participated in the test. The questions of the test were developed based on the literature reviews and other standardized test scales. Those questions contained all the aims of the ‘measurement’ domain in the elementary school mathematics curriculum. Two-way ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) and Two-way MANOVA (Multivariate Analysis of Variance) were used with SPSS 12.0, and additional analyses were conducted. The results are as follows. First, the total score of the ‘measurement’ test showed significant differences between two groups and among the grades, also differences in the interaction between the grades and the groups. Second, as a result of the sub-domain of the ‘measurement’ test, the two groups are significantly different. Among the grades, there are significant differences except for the angle domain. For the interaction between the grades and the groups, only volume, area, and estimation have significant differences. Third, there are achievement differences between the two groups in several questions which are related to computation skills and understanding of basic ‘measurement’ units. With the results, the implication and the limitation of this study are discussed.

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