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“This is what you need to be learning”: an analysis of messages received by first-year mathematics students during their transition to university
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posted on 2017-11-09, 11:17 authored by Eirini Kouvela, Paul Hernandez-Martinez, Tony CroftThis paper explores the messages that first-year mathematics students receive in the context of their academic studies during their transition from school to university mathematics. Through observations of lectures and discussions with first-year mathematics undergraduates in an English university, we identified and analysed the messages that two of their lecturers transmitted to them during this transitional phase. The results suggest that strongly framed messages are more easily perceived by students and affect them during their transition. Additionally, messages that have been received in the school context continue to have control over students’ thinking and on many occasions can impede adjustment to the new setting.
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Mathematics Education Research JournalVolume
30Pages
165-183Citation
KOUVELA, E., HERNANDEZ-MARTINEZ, P. and CROFT, T., 2017. “This is what you need to be learning”: an analysis of messages received by first-year mathematics students during their transition to university. Mathematics Education Research Journal, 33(7), pp. 847-856.Publisher
Springer (© Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Inc.)Version
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-10-06Publication date
2017-10-24Notes
This paper was published as Open Access by Springer under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY 4.0).ISSN
1033-2170eISSN
2211-050XPublisher version
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- en
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