The Analysis of Students’ Difficulties in Solving PISA Mathematics Problems

Junaidah Wildani

2018

Abstract

This study aims to analyse students’ difficulties in solving PISA mathematics problem. The mathematics tasks for this study was taken from PISA 2012 released mathematics question. For this research, 12 tasks were selected based on its content area, context, and mathematical process underlying the task. The participant of this research was 28 students from grade IX Mts Ma’arif Assaadah II Bungah-Gresik. To collect the data of student’s error, only incorrect or partially correct answer were analysed using Newman’s error categories namely comprehension, transformation, processing and encoding. The unknown’ category was added for responses which provide too limited information to be analysed. In total, 201 incorrect and partially correct answer was gathered from 336 responses. The analysis result shows that 49.3% of error is located in comprehension, 42.7% in transformation, 7.2% in processing, and only 0.7% error is located in encoding. Based on mathematical process of the task, students made error the most in employ task. Based on mathematical content area of the task, students made error the most in change and relationship task. And the last, based on the context of the task, students made error the most in occupational and scientific task.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wildani J. (2018). The Analysis of Students’ Difficulties in Solving PISA Mathematics Problems.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Islam - Volume 1: ICMIs, ISBN 978-989-758-407-7, pages 246-252. DOI: 10.5220/0008520202460252

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icmis18,
author={Junaidah Wildani},
title={The Analysis of Students’ Difficulties in Solving PISA Mathematics Problems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Islam - Volume 1: ICMIs,},
year={2018},
pages={246-252},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008520202460252},
isbn={978-989-758-407-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Islam - Volume 1: ICMIs,
TI - The Analysis of Students’ Difficulties in Solving PISA Mathematics Problems
SN - 978-989-758-407-7
AU - Wildani J.
PY - 2018
SP - 246
EP - 252
DO - 10.5220/0008520202460252