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The development of a function concept inventory
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posted on 2016-06-13, 16:19 authored by A. O'Shea, S. Breen, Barbara JaworskiThis paper describes the development of a concept inventory, a test designed to investigate undergraduate students’ understanding of the concept of function. A central purpose was to address conceptual understanding. We outline a set of elements of the understanding of function, based on key properties of the function concept, which were used to construct test items. We describe the design and validation process for the concept inventory and comment on some implications for the refinement of the instrument and its use.
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The authors would like to acknowledge the support of a NAIRTL (National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning) grant for this research.
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International Journal ofResearch in Undergraduate Mathematics EducationCitation
O'SHEA, A., BREEN, S. and JAWORSKI, B., 2016. The development of a function concept inventory. International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2 (3), pp. 279-296.Publisher
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2016-06-17Notes
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40753-016-0030-5ISSN
2198-9745eISSN
2198-9753Publisher version
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