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Almuna Salgado, Felipe – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
This paper aims to revisit and clarify the term problem context and to develop a theoretical classification of the construct of levels of context use (LCU) to analyse how the context of a problem is used to formulate a problem in mathematical terms and to interpret the answer in relation to the context of a given problem. Two criteria and six…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Context Effect, Problem Solving, Problem Sets
Stacey, Kaye; Steinle, Vicki – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2006
The basic theory of Rasch measurement applies to situations where a person has a certain level of a trait being investigated, and this level of ability is what determines (to within a measurement error) how well the person does on each item in a test. This paper responds to frequent suggestions from colleagues that the use of Rasch measurement…
Descriptors: Measurement, Error of Measurement, Item Response Theory, Construct Validity