Title:
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The construction of a double-entry table: a study of primary and secondary school students' difficulties
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Author:
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Martí Sala, Eduardo; Garcia-Milà, Mercè; Gabucio Cerezo, Fernando; Konstantinidou, Aikaterini
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Other authors:
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Universitat de Barcelona |
Abstract:
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Tables are a presentation format that is commonly used to organize information, and they are widely present in many scenarios of our students' everyday activities; however, there is a scarcity of studies devoted to their analysis. Some of these studies point out that the organization of data into a double entry table presents difficulties for primary and secondary school students. The present study analyzes the following: 1) the level of competency of primary and secondary school students in constructing a double entry table from a set of data and 2) the main difficulties encountered by these students during the task. Our findings showed that the percentage of middle school students who succeeded in contructing a conventional table was relatively low, and the number did not significantly increase over four school years. A set of difficulties is identified and discussed in terms of cognitive and graphical processes |
Subject(s):
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-Alfabetització visual -Cognició -Educació primària -Educació secundària -Visual literacy -Cognition -Primary education -Secondary education |
Rights:
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(c) Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisboa, Portugal and Springer Science+Business Media, 2011
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Document type:
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Article Article - Accepted version |
Published by:
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Springer Science + Business Media
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