Cognitive and affective components of undergraduate students learning how to prove
The purpose of this work was to explore the cognitive and affective factors involved in undergraduates' efforts to learn how to prove: how their proving developed during a transition to proof course and what kinds of satisfying moments, i.e. positive emotional reactions, they experienced. Four semi-structured interviews across a semester were conducted with eleven undergraduate students enrolled in a transition to proof course. The resulting data was analyzed using qualitative methods.
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Copyright Status
- Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Material Type
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Theses
- Authors
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Satyam, Visala Rani
- Thesis Advisors
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Smith, John P.
- Committee Members
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Levin, Mariana
Karunakaran, Shiv
Gerhardt, Teena
- Date Published
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2018
- Subjects
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Proof theory
Mathematics--Study and teaching (Higher)
Mathematics--Study and teaching
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Educational psychology
Education, Higher
United States
- Program of Study
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Mathematics Education - Doctor of Philosophy
- Degree Level
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Doctoral
- Language
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English
- Pages
- xviii, 184 pages
- ISBN
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9780438292086
0438292081
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- https://doi.org/doi:10.25335/q92d-n037