Student Misconceptions and Errors in Physics and Mathematics: Exploring Data from TIMSS and TIMSS Advanced

✍ Scribed by Teresa Neidorf, Alka Arora, Ebru Erberber, Yemurai Tsokodayi, Thanh Mai

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 173
Series: IEA Research for Education 9
Edition: 1st ed. 2020
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This open access report explores the nature and extent of students’ misconceptions and misunderstandings related to core concepts in physics and mathematics and physics across grades four, eight and 12. Twenty years of data from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and TIMSS Advanced assessments are analyzed, specifically for five countries (Italy, Norway, Russian Federation, Slovenia, and the United States) who participated in all or almost all TIMSS and TIMSS Advanced assessments between 1995 and 2015.

The report focuses on students’ understandings related to gravitational force in physics and linear equations in mathematics. It identifies some specific misconceptions, errors, and misunderstandings demonstrated by the TIMSS Advanced grade 12 students for these core concepts, and shows how these can be traced back to poor foundational development of these concepts in earlier grades. Patterns in misconceptions and misunderstandings are reported by grade, country, and gender. In addition, specific misconceptions and misunderstandings are tracked over time, using trend items administered in multiple assessment cycles.

The study and associated methodology may enable education systems to help identify specific needs in the curriculum, improve inform instruction across grades and also raise possibilities for future TIMSS assessment design and reporting that may provide more diagnostic outcomes.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
An Introduction to Student Misconceptions and Errors in Physics and Mathematics (Teresa Neidorf, Alka Arora, Ebru Erberber, Yemurai Tsokodayi, Thanh Mai)....Pages 1-10
Review of Research into Misconceptions and Misunderstandings in Physics and Mathematics (Teresa Neidorf, Alka Arora, Ebru Erberber, Yemurai Tsokodayi, Thanh Mai)....Pages 11-20
Methodology Used to Analyze Student Misconceptions, Errors, and Misunderstandings in TIMSS (Teresa Neidorf, Alka Arora, Ebru Erberber, Yemurai Tsokodayi, Thanh Mai)....Pages 21-35
Results for Student Misconceptions, Errors, and Misunderstandings in Physics and Mathematics (Teresa Neidorf, Alka Arora, Ebru Erberber, Yemurai Tsokodayi, Thanh Mai)....Pages 37-132
Conclusions About Using TIMSS and TIMSS Advanced Data to Explore Student Misconceptions, Errors, and Misunderstandings in Physics and Mathematics (Teresa Neidorf, Alka Arora, Ebru Erberber, Yemurai Tsokodayi, Thanh Mai)....Pages 133-153
Back Matter ....Pages 155-165

✦ Subjects

Education; International and Comparative Education; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Science Education; Mathematics, general; Physics, general

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