The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of representation strategy instruction with direct instruction on the mathematical underachiever's word-problem solving and self-efficacy. In order to accomplish such purpose, the research questions...
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of representation strategy instruction with direct instruction on the mathematical underachiever's word-problem solving and self-efficacy. In order to accomplish such purpose, the research questions were established as follows.
First, how much different effects are made by representation strategy instruction and direct instruction on the mathematical underachiever's word-problem solving?
Second, how much different effects are made by representation strategy instruction and direct instruction on the mathematical underachiever's self-efficacy?
In order to resolve the above questions, 30 students with mathematical underachievement were selected among 297 5th graders of primary school located in Jejudo. After, the experiment group of 15 students were treated with the representation strategy instruction during 15 periods third on a week and the control group of 15 students were treated direct instruction.
The data were treated to obtain mean and standard deviation as descriptive statistics and perfomed ANCOVA to verify the difference of the effect. The results of this study are as follows.
First, the experiment group that participated in the sessions of representation strategy instruction was proved to be more effective on enhancing the mathematical word-problem solving rather than control group that participated in the sessions of direct instruction.
Second, the experiment group that participated in the sessions of representation strategy instruction was proved to be more effective on enhancing the self-efficacy rather than control group that participated in the sessions of direct instruction.
As above, representation strategy instruction is not only more suitable learning strategy to enhance the mathematical underachiever's mathematical word-problem solving but also to enhance the self-efficacy rather than direct instruction.