Evaluating and teaching metric measurement of length and area in a group of teachers' college students
| dc.Institution | The University of the West Indies, Mona | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ying, Esther L. | |
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| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-18T18:05:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-01-18T18:05:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1981 | |
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| dc.description.abstract | This study was concerned with the competence of teachers graduating from the primary course in Jamaican teachers' colleges in metric measurement. Data were collected from a sample of 66 randomly selected Primary third-year students from one urban college within the framework of a pre-test, post-test control group design, with the experimental group receiving treatment consisting of a teaching unit of length and area. Results of the data analysis showed that: 1) the metric test correlated positively with the final college examination for mathematics; there was a strong correlation in the case of the metric test for length; 2) students had a low level of competence in metric measurement; and 3) the competence of students in metric measurement decreased as the task involved got increasingly abstract | |
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| dc.extent | vi, 134, [4] p | |
| dc.identifier.other | 950 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2139/53050 | |
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| dc.source.uri | Main Library, UWISA - UWI Theses Collection | |
| dc.subject.other | Primary school mathematics | |
| dc.title | Evaluating and teaching metric measurement of length and area in a group of teachers' college students | |
| dc.type | M.Ed. |