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The Contribution of Domain-Specific Knowledge in Predicting Students' Proportional Word Problem-Solving Performance
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Jitendra, Asha K.; Lein, Amy E.; Star, Jon R.; Dupuis, Danielle N. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2013
This study explored the extent to which domain-specific knowledge predicted proportional word problem-solving performance. We tested 411 seventh-grade students on conceptual and procedural fraction knowledge, conceptual and procedural proportion knowledge, and proportional word problem solving. Multiple regression analyses indicated that all four…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Word Problems (Mathematics), Problem Solving, Grade 7