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Sükrü Ilgün; Solmaz Damla Gedik Altun; Alper Cihan Konyalioglu – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2023
The aim of this study is to examine the ability of pre-service mathematics teachers to detect errors made in solving questions about matrices. The study particularly focused on revealing the internalization of the teachings such as the meanings and relational dimensions of concepts and operations about matrix. The study was conducted with 26…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Error Patterns, Matrices
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Altun, Solmaz Damla Gedik – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2022
The teacher must, first of all, have a good knowledge of mathematics to detect the errors in the student's mathematical knowledge and to identify the general situation in the classroom. This depends on the mathematical knowledge gained in the teacher training schools. General mathematics topics occupying an important place in the departments of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Error Patterns, Science Teachers, Mathematical Concepts
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Atabek-Yigit, Elif; Senoz, Ahmet Burak – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2023
Students' recognition of the common procedural mistakes in the chemistry laboratory was examined in this study. Data were collected from 49 undergraduates studying Science Teaching. A video in which a student is purposefully making common procedural mistakes was shown to the students, and they were asked to recognize the mistakes. A Written…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Laboratories, Science Instruction, College Science
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Tutak, Tayfun; Süzen, Ahmet Burak; Inan, Ibrahim Enam – Participatory Educational Research, 2020
The aim of this study is to determine the mistakes made by secondary school mathematics teachers in the operation priority (Order-of-Operations) and to offer solutions to these problems. The research, which is conducted during 2018-2019 academic year in the central district of Elazig and is limited to fifteen mathematics teachers who had different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Error Patterns
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Altiparmak, Kemal; Gürcan, Gizem – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
The aim of this study is to obtain information about students' definitions, mistakes, misconceptions, and van Hiele geometry thinking levels by using the definitions of 4th grade students for geometric shapes of rectangle, square, isosceles triangle, equilateral triangle, and scalene triangle. The study was carried out with 156 primary school 4th…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Geometry
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Mete, Pelin – Science Education International, 2020
For abstract concepts to be well understood, students need to be familiar with the concepts and able to associate them correctly. Students cannot make scientific explanations on the subject unless they can establish relationships. This study aimed to determine the understanding level of 11th-grade high school students on "gases" in terms…
Descriptors: Grade 11, High School Students, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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Coskun, Sumeyra Dogan – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2020
Introduction: Although there is ambiguity about the elements of teacher knowledge, all researchers accept that being able to anticipate what errors can be made, the reasons for and the strategies to overcome these errors, in short, the knowledge of students is important for student achievement. In this study, knowledge of students refers to being…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Subtraction
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Akyüz, Gözde – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
The goal of this study was to determine the mathematics achievement level in basic numeracy and algebra concepts of students in a two-year program in a technical vocational school of higher education and determine the errors that they make in these topics. The researcher developed a diagnostic mathematics achievement test related to numeracy and…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Algebra, Vocational Schools, Two Year Colleges