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A potential dissociation between perception and production version for bounded but not unbounded number line
Regina Miriam Reinert1, Venera Gashaj2, Matthias Hartmann3
1University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Number line estimation (NLE) tasks assess different cognitive skills depending on their version. Unbounded NLE tasks consistently measure magnitude estimation, while bounded NLE tasks involve proportion judgment.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive psychology
- Mathematics education
Background:
- Number line estimation (NLE) tasks are used to assess numerical cognition.
- Different versions of NLE tasks may measure distinct underlying constructs.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the associations between production and perception versions of bounded and unbounded NLE tasks.
- To examine the relationship between NLE task performance and arithmetic abilities.
Main Methods:
- Comparing correlations between production and perception NLE tasks (bounded and unbounded).
- Assessing the relationship between NLE performance and arithmetic skills.
Main Results:
- Unbounded NLE tasks showed stronger correlations between production and perception versions than bounded NLE tasks.
- Significant associations between NLE performance and arithmetic were found only for the production version of the bounded NLE task.
Conclusions:
- Unbounded NLE tasks consistently measure magnitude estimation.
- Bounded NLE tasks, particularly the production version, may rely on proportion judgment strategies, with limited association to arithmetic.
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