英文摘要 |
The major purpose of this study is to investigate Taiwanese 7th grade students' self-efficacy beliefs about the problem-solving performances on constructed-response questions, and to examine the relation between the beliefs and the types of the tasks. This research classified the constructed-response questions in terms of task types, and applied two different task types to students from two classes of a public junior high school in Kaohsiung. The constructed-response items applied in this study is selected form Quantitative Understanding: Amplifying Student Achievement and ReasoningCognitive Assessment Instrument. The investigator asked students to solves these constructed-response items and rate their own performances. Additionally, interviews were conducted to further investigate their self-assessment given in the written test. The results from the self-assessment and the interviews indicated that the task types affected students' self-efficacy beliefs. From the task types classified, this study provided an alternative to the classification of the constructed-response items. The investigator also recommended applying more "finding partial solution(s)" type of questions in mathematics classrooms. |