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Perspectives Gained from Different Assessment Tasks on Chinese and Australian School Students Learning Mathematics
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Callingham, Rosemary – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2008
Recent international studies have highlighted the success of students from Hong Kong in mathematics and problem-solving, and have begun to suggest some of the factors associated with this success. Other studies have suggested that Hong Kong students are averse to risk-taking, favouring memorisation and imitation in their solution strategies. Year…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mental Computation, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction