Newman Method Used to Analyze the Math Performance of Somali Sixth-Grade Students
Keywords:
problem solving, transformation, encoding, math performanceAbstract
Somalia faces the problems of low performance in mathematics at primary school level, especially in the area of ability in mathematical problem solving. The purpose of this study was to understand the cause of students' low achievement through analysis of the levels of their abilities, which are classified into the five stages, i.e. reading, comprehension, transformation, process skills, and encoding. And relationship between those levels and mathematical abilities to determine the contribution of these levels to math performance. In this study, 40 students were selected from among 6th graders of elementary school; there are five questions to interview forty Grade six students. The data suggested that most of students’ errors occurred at comprehension level for structured questions while the errors for multiple choice questions occurred at the transformation level. Good performers’ errors did not occur at reading level, but poor performers’ errors occurred mostly at comprehension level.
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