The Role of Rewording and Context Personalization in the Solving of Mathematical Word Problems.

Davis-Dorsey, Judy; And Others

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Publication Date: 1991

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The Role of Rewording and Context Personalization in the Solving of Mathematical Word Problems.

Davis-Dorsey, Judy; And Others

Journal of Educational Psychology, v83 n1 p61-68 Mar 1991

The impact of personalizing mathematical word problems and rewording them for explicitness was tested with 68 second and 59 fifth graders. Second graders benefited from personalization and rewording in combination; fifth graders benefited from personalization, not rewording. Personalization makes problems more motivating and easier to represent mentally in relation to existing knowledge. (SLD)

Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Adaptive Testing, Age Differences, Comparative Testing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 5, Learning Strategies, Mathematics Tests, Problem Solving, Test Construction, Test Items, Textbook Preparation, Word Problems (Mathematics)

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