Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education
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Journal

Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education


Volume
& Issue

Volume 14, Issue 3


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Pages

793-805


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Article

Differences of high-school sophomores’ performance when solving non-authentic tasks and their authentic versions


Authors

David Nexticapan-Cortés Affiliation:
High School Mathematics Teacher, Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
, Estela Juárez-Ruiz Affiliation:
Full-Time Professor of Mathematics Education, Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
and José Antonio Juárez-López Affiliation:
Full-time Professor of Mathematics Education, Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico


Abstract

This study focuses on students´ performance when solving a set of non -authentic tasks and their authentic versions. Through a quantitative survey-type study, four non-authentic tasks and their authentic versions were implemented in a group of 26 high-school sophomores obtained by a simple random sampling. The results indicated a better performance in solving the authentic tasks than in the non -authentic ones. It is confirmed that students can better solve these tasks, even when a slight change is made in their writing.


Keywords

Authenticity, students’ performance, task, word problems


Citation

Nexticapan-Cortés, D., Juárez-Ruiz, E., & Juárez-López, J. A. (2023). Differences of high-school sophomores’ performance when solving non-authentic tasks and their authentic versions. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education, 14(3), 793–805.

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