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posted on 2019-01-31, 15:02 authored by Paola Iannone, Adrian SimpsonExisting research posits a relationship between undergraduate mathematics students’ mathematics-related epistemological beliefs and their perceptions of summative assessment. This paper reports a study investigating whether there is indeed such a relationship. First and second year mathematics undergraduate students at two universities in the UK were invited to complete a questionnaire, comprising the Assessment Preference Inventory and the Mathematics-Related Beliefs Questionnaire. The results did not support the prediction, with the only statistically significant relation found being one
between students’ self-efficacy and their preference for summative assessment methods requiring complex responses. We conclude either that the prediction of the relationship is mistaken, or that concerns about the definition of discipline-based epistemological beliefs, the uniformity of the sample in the study or the issue of validity of the tools used to measure epistemological beliefs may mask the nature of this relationship.
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- Science
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- Mathematics Education Centre
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International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics EducationVolume
5Issue
2Pages
147–162Citation
IANNONE, P. and SIMPSON, A., 2019. The relation between mathematics students’ discipline-based epistemological beliefs and their summative assessment preferences. International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 5 (2), pp.147–162.Publisher
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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40753-019-00086-5Acceptance date
2019-01-23Publication date
2019-02-20ISSN
2198-9745eISSN
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