Relationship between scientific reasoning skills and mathematics achievement among Malaysian students

The role of reasoning in mathematical performance is a continuing topic of interest for researchers in mathematics education. This present study explored the link between scientific reasoning skills and mathematics performance as measured by students’ responses to a series of novel problems. Resul...

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Main Authors: Nor’ain Mohd. Tajudin, Mohan Chinnappan
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Language:English
Published: School of Social, Development and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016
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spelling ukm-98052016-12-14T06:50:53Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9805/ Relationship between scientific reasoning skills and mathematics achievement among Malaysian students Nor’ain Mohd. Tajudin, Mohan Chinnappan, The role of reasoning in mathematical performance is a continuing topic of interest for researchers in mathematics education. This present study explored the link between scientific reasoning skills and mathematics performance as measured by students’ responses to a series of novel problems. Results indicated the existence of a moderate positive correlation between the two variables. All participating students exhibited low levels of scientific reasoning. Despite this, students in the high-achievement group performed significantly better than their peers in the lowachievement group in the mathematics test. The results suggest that while scientific reasoning is necessary, these set of skills may not fully explain the kind of reasoning that underpins mathematical problem solving among Malaysian secondary students. We draw implications for instructions to support the development and use of reasoning in mathematical learning in Malaysian classrooms. School of Social, Development and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9805/1/10ok.geografia-jan16-norain1-bi-edam1.pdf Nor’ain Mohd. Tajudin, and Mohan Chinnappan, (2016) Relationship between scientific reasoning skills and mathematics achievement among Malaysian students. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 12 (1). pp. 96-107. ISSN 2180-2491 http://www.ukm.my/geografia/v2/index.php?cont=a&item=2&thn=2016&vol=12&issue=1&ver=loc
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description The role of reasoning in mathematical performance is a continuing topic of interest for researchers in mathematics education. This present study explored the link between scientific reasoning skills and mathematics performance as measured by students’ responses to a series of novel problems. Results indicated the existence of a moderate positive correlation between the two variables. All participating students exhibited low levels of scientific reasoning. Despite this, students in the high-achievement group performed significantly better than their peers in the lowachievement group in the mathematics test. The results suggest that while scientific reasoning is necessary, these set of skills may not fully explain the kind of reasoning that underpins mathematical problem solving among Malaysian secondary students. We draw implications for instructions to support the development and use of reasoning in mathematical learning in Malaysian classrooms.
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author Nor’ain Mohd. Tajudin,
Mohan Chinnappan,
spellingShingle Nor’ain Mohd. Tajudin,
Mohan Chinnappan,
Relationship between scientific reasoning skills and mathematics achievement among Malaysian students
author_facet Nor’ain Mohd. Tajudin,
Mohan Chinnappan,
author_sort Nor’ain Mohd. Tajudin,
title Relationship between scientific reasoning skills and mathematics achievement among Malaysian students
title_short Relationship between scientific reasoning skills and mathematics achievement among Malaysian students
title_full Relationship between scientific reasoning skills and mathematics achievement among Malaysian students
title_fullStr Relationship between scientific reasoning skills and mathematics achievement among Malaysian students
title_full_unstemmed Relationship between scientific reasoning skills and mathematics achievement among Malaysian students
title_sort relationship between scientific reasoning skills and mathematics achievement among malaysian students
publisher School of Social, Development and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2016
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9805/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9805/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9805/1/10ok.geografia-jan16-norain1-bi-edam1.pdf
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