Naslov
What Affects Retention of Core Calculus Concepts Among University Students? A Study of Different Teaching Approaches in Croatia and Denmark

Autori
Jukić Matić, Ljerka ; Soendergaard, Bettina Dahl

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Proceedings 7th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education / Pytlak, Marta ; Swoboda, Ewa ; Rowland, Tim - Rzeszów, 2011, 2033-2042

ISBN
978-83-7338-683-9

Skup
Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME)

Mjesto i datum
Rzeszów, Poljska, 09.02.2011. - 13.02.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
retention; knowledge; procedural; conceptual

Sažetak
This paper reports a parallel study of two university calculus courses in Croatia and Denmark using different teaching approaches. Both have lectures to a large group of students but they use different types of exercises. In Denmark, the exercises are student-centred, while the Croatian university uses a teacher-centred approach. The content of the courses are similar regarding the concepts we study in this paper. The students‘ retention was tested two months after the course exam on these concepts. Our statistical data analysis shows that the Danish students of our sample performed significantly better than the Croatian students of our sample on the conceptual questions, and vice versa for the procedural ones.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pedagogija

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