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Download full textSelden, Annie; Selden, John; Hauk, Shandy; Mason, Alice – Online Submission, 1999
In two previous studies we investigated the non-routine problem-solving abilities of students just finishing their first year of a traditionally taught calculus sequence. This paper reports on a similar study, using the same non-routine first-year differential calculus problems, with students who had completed one and one-half years of traditional…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Equations (Mathematics)
Stricker, Lawrence J.; Ward, William C. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
Laboratory experiments by Steele and Aronson (1995) found that African-American subjects' performance on difficult verbal items, described as a verbal problem-solving task, was adversely affected when they were asked about their ethnicity just before working on the items. These results were attributed to stereotype threat. Asking about ethnicity…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups, Test Items, Problem Solving
