The Didactic Contract to Interpret Some Statistical Evidence in Mathematics Standardized Assessment Tests

Federica Ferretti; Chiara Giberti; Alice Lemmo

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Federica Ferretti ¹, Chiara Giberti ² ^* , Alice Lemmo ³

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¹ Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Bolzano, ITALY² University of Bologna, Bologna, ITALY³ I.C. Bassa Anaunia- Duenno, Trento, ITALY^* Corresponding Author

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In this study we analyse results of Italian standardized tests in mathematics integrating quantitative analysis based on the Rasch Model and didactical interpretation. We use specific graphs to analyse the trend of each answer as function of the students’ math ability. This approach led us to focus on specific items in which a wrong answer results particularly popular among medium/high level students and analyse this particular trend with the lenses of math education theories. The study reveals that these phenomena are particularly related to implicit and explicit rules governing classroom practices exist at all school levels and regard different mathematical content and skills.

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didactic contract
mathematics education
mixed methods
Rasch analysis
standardized assessment

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 14, Issue 7, July 2018, 2895-2906

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Ferretti, F., Giberti, C., & Lemmo, A. (2018). The Didactic Contract to Interpret Some Statistical Evidence in Mathematics Standardized Assessment Tests. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 14(7), 2895-2906. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/90988

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Ferretti F, Giberti C, Lemmo A. The Didactic Contract to Interpret Some Statistical Evidence in Mathematics Standardized Assessment Tests. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2018;14(7):2895-906. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/90988

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Ferretti F, Giberti C, Lemmo A. The Didactic Contract to Interpret Some Statistical Evidence in Mathematics Standardized Assessment Tests. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2018;14(7), 2895-2906. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/90988

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Ferretti, Federica, Chiara Giberti, and Alice Lemmo. "The Didactic Contract to Interpret Some Statistical Evidence in Mathematics Standardized Assessment Tests". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2018 14 no. 7 (2018): 2895-2906. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/90988

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Ferretti, F., Giberti, C., and Lemmo, A. (2018). The Didactic Contract to Interpret Some Statistical Evidence in Mathematics Standardized Assessment Tests. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 14(7), pp. 2895-2906. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/90988

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Ferretti, Federica et al. "The Didactic Contract to Interpret Some Statistical Evidence in Mathematics Standardized Assessment Tests". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 14, no. 7, 2018, pp. 2895-2906. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/90988