A mathematics vocabulary questionnaire for use in the intermediate phase

Walt, Martha van der; Maree, Jacobus G.; Ellis, Suria

doi:10.15700/saje.v28n4a210

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“…References to metacognitive awareness in mathematics education research often fail to acknowledge the imagination as a key role player in the cognitive processes during visualisation. Some studies have shown that teachers' metacognition is not adequate to model metacognitive awareness and undertones the vagueness in our understanding of the imagination as a faculty of self-directed learning, as it is rarely promoted in mathematics classrooms (Van der Walt et al, 2008). The typical objectivist perspective on mathematics is, perhaps, the result of this understanding, and impacts on teachers' approaches to, and education philosophy of, mathematics.…”

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Metacognitive awareness and visualisation in the imagination: The case of the invisible circles

Jagals

Walt

2018

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Awareness of one’s own strengths and weaknesses during visualisation is often initiated by the imagination – the faculty for intuitively visualising and modelling an object. Towards exploring the role of metacognitive awareness and imagination in facilitating visualisation in solving a mathematics task, four secondary schools in the North West province of South Africa were selected for instrumental case studies. Understanding how mathematical objects are modelled in the mind may explain the transfer of the mathematical ideas between metacognitive awareness and the rigour of the imaginer’s mental images. From each school, a top achiever in mathematics was invited to an individual interview (n = 4) and was video-recorded while solving a mathematics word problem. Participants also had to identify metacognitive statements from a sample of statement cards (n = 15) which provided them the necessary vocabulary to express their thinking during the interview. During their attempts, participants were asked questions about what they were thinking, what they did and why they did what they had done. Analysis with a priori coding suggests the three types of imagination consistent with the metacognitive awareness and visualisation include initiating, conceiving and transformative imaginations. These results indicate the tenets by which metacognitive awareness and visualisation are conceptually related with the imagination as a faculty of self-directedness. Based on these findings, a renewed understanding of the role of metacognition and imagination in mathematics tasks is revealed and discussed in terms of the tenets of metacognitive awareness and imagination. These tenets advance the rational debate about mathematics to promote a more imaginative mathematics.

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“…Before solving the problem, each participant received a set of 15 metacognitive statement cards, taken from the idea by Wilson (2002) and Van der Walt, Maree and Ellis (2008), on which metacognitive awareness capabilities were spelt out.…”

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Metacognitive awareness and visualisation in the imagination: The case of the invisible circles

Jagals

Walt

2018

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“…Utilizing vocabulary tests in information security is not generally practiced and stems from the success of other educational studies (specifically mathematics) where learners' language proficiency in a subject, e.g. mathematics, was measured using vocabulary tests [22], [23].…”

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A Linguistic Approach to Information Security Awareness Education in a Healthcare Environment

Drevin

Kruger

Bell

et al. 2017

Information Security Education for a Global Digital Society

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It is widely accepted that healthcare information security is extremely important and that security breaches will have serious consequences in many areas. Despite controls, such as legal frameworks, as well as ongoing research projects into healthcare information security and privacy, there is still an alarming number of healthcare information security breaches reported annually. In this paper, a linguistic approach, utilizing a vocabulary test, is proposed as a tool to determine security awareness levels of healthcare workers and to assist in educating them in security awareness aspects. A vocabulary-measuring instrument was developed and distributed to healthcare workers in a large South African hospital group. Results indicated that information security awareness levels are generally acceptable, but that potential problem areas exist between certain language groups, as well as between different business functions (departments). The study also shows that the proposed approach may offer significant advantages in information security awareness campaigns.

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“…South African learners struggle with reading comprehension even when reading in their home languages (Pretorius et al, 2020). As a result, they perform poorly on problems involving language (Van der Walt et al, 2008). This is especially pronounced in bilingual and multilingual learners since they develop literacy simultaneously in two languages (Cockcroft, 2016;Wilsenach and Schaefer, 2022).…”

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A Corpus-Based List of Frequently Used Words in Sesotho

Sibeko,

De Clercq

2023

Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023)

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This article describes the development of a list of frequently used words in written Sesotho. The list has been created with the aim of incorporating it into frequency-based text readability metrics. The list was derived using a corpus-based approach. By leveraging three existing Sesotho corpora, frequency lists could be derived, which were subsequently merged and qualitatively analysed and fine-tuned by an experienced speaker of Sesotho. The main challenges in compiling the list included reconciling the spelling variations, the treatment of abbreviations, and the presence of unexpected words in the preliminary lists. The final list comprises 3037 entries and is made publicly available to the research community.

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A mathematics vocabulary questionnaire for use in the intermediate phase

Cited by 17 publications

References 11 publications

Metacognitive awareness and visualisation in the imagination: The case of the invisible circles

Metacognitive awareness and visualisation in the imagination: The case of the invisible circles

A Linguistic Approach to Information Security Awareness Education in a Healthcare Environment

A Corpus-Based List of Frequently Used Words in Sesotho

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