Bayesian Assessment of Undergraduate Students About the Real Function Mathematical Concept

Flor Monserrat Rodríguez-Vásquez; Francisco J. Ariza-Hernandez

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Flor Monserrat Rodríguez-Vásquez ¹, Francisco J. Ariza-Hernandez ¹ ^*

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¹ Facultad de Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, MEXICO^* Corresponding Author

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The evaluation of learning in mathematics is a worldwide problem, therefore, new methods are required to assess the understanding of mathematical concepts. In this paper, we propose to use the Item Response Theory to analyze the understanding level of undergraduate students about the real function mathematical concept. The Bayesian approach was used to make inferences about the parameters of interest. We designed a test containing twelve items, to which a reliability analysis and validation test were applied. The experiment consisted in administer our test to 48 undergraduate students (18-20 years old) who are in a math career. We concluded that 25% of the students reached a high level of understanding, 39.6% a medium level of understanding and, 35.4% a low level of understanding. Furthermore, that students obtained low levels of understanding for tasks with high cognitive demand, and they obtained high levels of understanding for tasks with low cognitive demand.

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understanding
assessment
mathematics education
IRT model
validation test

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2021, Volume 17, Issue 3, Article No: em1949

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Rodríguez-Vásquez, F. M., & Ariza-Hernandez, F. J. (2021). Bayesian Assessment of Undergraduate Students About the Real Function Mathematical Concept. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 17(3), em1949. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/10776

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Rodríguez-Vásquez FM, Ariza-Hernandez FJ. Bayesian Assessment of Undergraduate Students About the Real Function Mathematical Concept. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2021;17(3):em1949. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/10776

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Rodríguez-Vásquez FM, Ariza-Hernandez FJ. Bayesian Assessment of Undergraduate Students About the Real Function Mathematical Concept. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2021;17(3), em1949. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/10776

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Rodríguez-Vásquez, Flor Monserrat, and Francisco J. Ariza-Hernandez. "Bayesian Assessment of Undergraduate Students About the Real Function Mathematical Concept". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2021 17 no. 3 (2021): em1949. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/10776

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Rodríguez-Vásquez, F. M., and Ariza-Hernandez, F. J. (2021). Bayesian Assessment of Undergraduate Students About the Real Function Mathematical Concept. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 17(3), em1949. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/10776

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Rodríguez-Vásquez, Flor Monserrat et al. "Bayesian Assessment of Undergraduate Students About the Real Function Mathematical Concept". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 17, no. 3, 2021, em1949. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/10776