RT Journal Article
T1 Which One Is the “Best”: a Cross-national Comparative Study of Students’ Strategy Evaluation in Equation Solving
A1 Jiang, Ronghuan
A1 Star, Jon
A1 Hästö, Peter
A1 Li, Lijia
A1 Liu, Ru-de
A1 Tuomela, Dimitri
A1 Joglar Prieto, Nuria
A1 Palkki, Riikka
A1 Abánades, Miguel
A1 Pejlare, Johanna
AB This cross-national study examined students’ evaluation of strategies for solving linear equations, as well as the extent to which their evaluation criteria were related to their use of strategies and/or aligned with experts’ views about which strategy is the best. A total of 792 middle school and high school students from Sweden, Finland, and Spain participated in the study. Students were asked to solve twelve equations, provide multiple solving strategies for each equation, and select the best strategy among those they produced for each equation. Our results indicate that students’ evaluation of strategies was not strongly related to their initial preferences for using strategies. Instead, many students’ criteria were aligned with the flexibility goals, in that a strategy that takes advantages of task context was more highly valued than a standard algorithm. However, cross-national differences in strategy evaluation indicated that Swedish and Finnish students were more aligned with flexibility goals in terms of their strategy evaluation criteria, while Spanish students tended to consider standard algorithms better than other strategies. We also found that high school students showed more flexibility concerns than middle school students. Different emphases in educational practice and prior knowledge might explain these cross-national differences as well as the findings of developmental changes in students’ evaluation criteria.
PB Springer Nature
SN 1571-0068
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112292
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112292
LA eng
NO Jiang, R., Star, J. R., Hästö, P., Li, L., Liu, R.-d., Tuomela, D., Prieto, N. J., Palkki, R., Abánades, M. Á., & Pejlare, J. (2023). Which One Is the “Best”: a Cross-national Comparative Study of Students’ Strategy Evaluation in Equation Solving. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 21(4), 1127-1151. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10763-022-10282-6
NO This study was also supported by a grant from the Guangdong Science and Technology Department (2021A1515010936). 
NO Guangdong Science and Technology Department (2021A1515010936)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025