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Foster, Colin; Woodhead, Simon; Barton, Craig; Clark-Wilson, Alison – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2022
In this paper, we analyse a large, opportunistic dataset of responses (N = 219,826) to online, diagnostic multiple-choice mathematics questions, provided by 6-16-year-old UK school mathematics students (N = 7302). For each response, students were invited to indicate on a 5-point Likert-type scale how confident they were that their response was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Multiple Choice Tests
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Sangwin, Christopher J.; Jones, Ian – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2017
In this paper we report the results of an experiment designed to test the hypothesis that when faced with a question involving the inverse direction of a reversible mathematical process, students solve a multiple-choice version by verifying the answers presented to them by the direct method, not by undertaking the actual inverse calculation.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Computer Assisted Testing