Students showed varying degrees of understanding of integration and limits, with common errors and misconceptions identified¶
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Currency · newest study 1983 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 1988: baselines and conditions change
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q2 i? Analysis of student responses to integration and limit tasks produced detailed data on the degree of understanding attained and on common errors and misconceptions. → Orton 1983
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Orton 1983¶
Orton, A. (1983). Students' understanding of integration. Educational Studies in Mathematics. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00704699
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Interview-based analysis of student responses to integration and limits tasks. The article reports that the analysis "led to detailed data concerning the degree of understanding attained and the common errors and misconceptions".
"The analysis of responses to tasks concerned with integration and limits led to detailed data concerning the degree of understanding attained and the common errors and misconceptions."
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Related Claims¶
- A clinical interviewing study investigated students' understanding of elementary calculus through tasks on integration and limits — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
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Students showed varying degrees of understanding of integration and limits, with common errors and misconceptions identified |
description |
Students showed varying degrees of understanding of integration and limits, with common errors and misconceptions identified |
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1983 |
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1988 |
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1 — orton-1983 |
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