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Hodgson, Ted – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1996
Analysis of (n=92) university students' construction of visual representations (Venn diagrams) of eight set expressions found competent and error-prone students constructed and used procedures to complete set translation tasks, and two-thirds of observed errors arose from consistent implementation of ill-formed procedures. (Author/MKR)
Descriptors: Algorithms, College Students, Higher Education, Mathematics Skills