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    A comparison of the mathematical knowledge and skills of first-year student cohorts from a transmission and an outcomes-based curriculum

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    2015
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    Froneman, Sonica
    Plotz, Mariana
    Benadé, Trudie
    Vorster, Hannatjie
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    The traditional transmission-based school curriculum in South Africa has been replaced by an outcomes-based school curriculum since 1998. In this article we report on a comparative study on the mathematical knowledge and skills of two cohorts of first-year students: the last cohort to be exposed to a transmission curriculum in Grades 10–12 and the first cohort to complete their entire school career according to an outcomes-based curriculum. The performances of the two cohorts were analysed in terms of procedural, proceptual and conceptual knowledge constructs, as well as topic areas of school mathematics. A t-test statistical analysis of the results of a mathematics diagnostic test was used in the analysis. A statistically significant difference with a small effect size was etablished for procedural knowledge, indicating that the outcomes-based education cohort has poorer algebraic skills. Statistically significant differences with a small to medium effect were obtained in the question-by-question comparison of topic areas, indicating a possible improvement in the conceptual knowledge of students of the outcomes-based education cohort
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10394/18506
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10288457.2015.1010349
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10288457.2015.1010349
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