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Rellensmann, Johanna; Schukajlow, Stanislaw; Blomberg, Judith; Leopold, Claudia – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2023
We investigated how students' strategic knowledge about situational (pictorial) drawings and mathematical (schematic) drawings affects drawing accuracy and modeling competencies in the domain of geometry. We conducted a pre-posttest experimental study with 473 students in grade 9. Students were randomly assigned to one of three treatment…
Descriptors: Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Accuracy, Freehand Drawing
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Jurkowski, Susanne; Hänze, Martin – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2017
Students' individual learning is supposed to be based on cognitive and social processes. Therefore, students' social skills are assumed to play an important role for school performance. This study set out to investigate the links between students' peer relations skills and assertion skills and their grades for written performances and oral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 9, Interpersonal Competence
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Brand, Susanne – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
The paper deals with the question of the practicability and the effectiveness of different approaches to foster students' mathematical modelling competencies. Within the modelling project ERMO (Acquirement of modelling competencies) a holistic and an atomistic approach of mathematical modelling were compared in order to find out which approach is…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Mathematical Models, Holistic Approach, Secondary School Mathematics
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Ammermueller, Andreas – Education Economics, 2007
Student performance of natives and immigrants differed greatly in the Programme for International Student Assessment 2000 in Germany. This paper analyses the gap in test scores by estimating educational production functions, using an extension study with imputed data. The difference in test scores is assigned to various effects, using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Characteristics, Scores, Immigrants