英文摘要 |
With addition and subtraction word problems, this study was to explore students' abilities of text-picture translation in their middle grades, and to explore the effects of drawings in the problem solving processes. In Experiment 1, there were 916 second, third, or fourth graders who were observed on multiple choice task. Two forms of drawings were used: square and bar graph. Students were asked to choose a correct drawing that agreed with the word problem specified. In Experiment 2. there were 466 third or fourth graders who were examined on multiple choice task. Two different sets of drawings were chosen: single-line-segment and double-line-segment drawings. In Experiment 3, there were 236 third or fourth graders who were tested on problem solving task. The same word problems as in the Experiment 2 were used. and half of them were presented with additional line-segment drawings. Grade effects were found in all three experiments. There was no effect of drawing forms. The results suggested that the difficulties on choosing correct drawings were related to the translation of the relations of quantities but not the quantities themselves. The finding also did not support the matching hypotheses between situations and drawings. By comparing the results in the last two experiments. it is clear that the performance on problem solving task was better than that on drawing choice task. Finally, the additional line-segment drawing on problem presentation had little effect on students' performance. All results were discussed in the framework of the development of part-whole operation. |