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 Dr. Amir Zaman Abdul Wali khan university Mardan, Pakistan |
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| Title: A study of secondary level students in context of GENERALIZATION thinking in mathematics | |
| Abstract: Generalization is important for students not only in real life but in mathematics as well so that students can perform well in mathematics as a whole therefore this study is aimed at assessing performance of grade 9th students in Geometrical thinking. Furthermore comparison among students in different strata was made like sector wise, gender wise and location wise. A test of reasoning was administered to a sample of above 500 hundred. Sample of the study was taken with proportionate approach from the whole population. The test was properly validated and reliably checked using SPSS. Factor analysis of the test shows that all items were statistically aligned with theoretical model. The results show that the students perform in a variety of ways like performance of private schools students was significantly better than students of public schools. Similarly male and urban students performed well than female and rural students respectively. However the difference between score of the students in private and public schools were found significant. Interaction analysis of gender, rural urban divide shows; that some items show interaction effect by behaving differently in response to background variables. It was recommended for further research to replicated this study on different level with tools suitable for their level and also can be better conducted using tools that involve diagrammatic reasoning. | |
| Biography: Dr Amir Zaman is working in department of Education Abdul Wali khan university Mardan, Pakistan since 2012. He completed his PhD in 2011 and in the same years was awarded fellowship for Postdoc in Curtin University Australia by Australian Govt. under prestigious scheme of Endeavor award. He worked on innovative pedagogy called as dilemma pedagogy in teacher education during his postdoc research. He has published 64 journals papers and 23 conference papers. Besides he has supervised 8 PhD and 40 M.Phil scholars successfully. He has also organized five international conferences in Pakistan Turkey, Indonesia and Malaysia. His active life in the field of educational research shows his caliber and is appreciated widely around the world. He has a vast experience in conference and has actively participated in different capacities like keynote speaker resource person and as organizer. We hope his fruitful contribution our conference. | |
