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Yohannes Tesfaye Sahlu; Mulugeta Woldemichael; Yonas Tessema Achule – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2025
The purpose of this study was to investigate the types of errors grade 10 students make in solving selected trigonometry problems. Another aim was to understand the origins of these errors that Students make when solving trigonometry problems. Another central purpose of the study was to provide instructional recommendations for addressing the…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Secondary School Students, Error Patterns, Trigonometry
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Ipek Saralar-Aras; Abdullah Kurudirek – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2025
This study offers a comprehensive investigation of 14-15-year-old students' comprehension of non-Euclidean geometries, with a specific focus on the assessment of their understanding through a 15-itemed test. The primary objective of this research is to assess the current state of students' knowledge and proficiency in non-Euclidean geometries and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students, Geometry, Concept Formation
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Yiling Cheng; I-Chien Chen; Barbara Schneider; Mark Reckase; Joseph Krajcik – Applied Measurement in Education, 2024
The current study expands on previous research on gender differences and similarities in science test scores. Using three different approaches -- differential item functioning, differential distractor functioning, and decision tree analysis -- we examine a high school science assessment administered to 3,849 10th-12th graders, of whom 2,021 are…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Science Achievement, Responses, Testing
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Ha, Xuan Van; Murray, Jill C.; Riazi, A. Mehdi – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This study employed an explanatory sequential mixed-methods research design to examine the beliefs of Vietnamese EFL students concerning oral corrective feedback (CF) and the role of some individual differences in these beliefs. The data consisted of questionnaires completed by 250 Vietnamese high school students and follow-up interviews with 15…
Descriptors: High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Feedback (Response)
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Boettger, Ryan K.; Emory Moore, Lindsay – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2018
We investigated the perception and recognition of errors in a population of practitioners and academics in professional and technical communication. Specifically, we measured 303 participants' botheration levels of 24 usage errors and then correlated those results against their ability to recognize the errors. Results indicated that practitioners…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Error Patterns, Business Communication, Language Usage
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Khaksefidi, Saman – International Education Studies, 2017
This study investigates the psychological effect of a wrong question with wrong items on answering to the next question in a test of structure. Forty students selected through stratified random sampling are given 15 questions of a standardized test namely a TOEFL structure test in which questions number 7 and number 11 are wrong and their answers…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Statistical Analysis