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Valéria Švecová1, Ľubomír Rybanský1, Gabriela Pavlovičová1
1Department of Mathematics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Tr. A Hlinku 1, 949 74 Nitra, Slovakia.
Abstract:
The research was aimed at finding relations between mathematical knowledge and cognitive individual variable. We realized the experiment with 162 students of the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia. We had two variables-the personal need for structure (PNS) as a cognitive-individual variable and knowledge of the fraction as a mathematical variable. The relationships between the factors of the personal need for structure scale and the knowledge of fractions were determined by the IRT model. We have proven a negative correlation between the successful solving of fraction test and score in the PNS scale. This means that the higher the success rate of solving the fraction tasks, the lower the overall score on the personal need for structure scale and its subfactors.
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