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Conception about "measurement" and "attribute" of pre-service primary school teachers in France.

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The teaching of the concepts of "attribute" and "measurement" at primary school in France is an interdisciplinary issue shared by mathematics and physics teaching. On the one hand, those concepts are necessary to build the concept of number in mathematics, and on the other hand to understand the nature of science and the science-based approach. We wonder what would be the conceptions that pre-service teachers could have about both concepts at the end of their training. First, we passed a word-association test. Trainees had to take a definite position about a list of words that referred to attributes or measurements. We compared our results with the ones obtained in a previous study (Passelaigue and Munier, 2015). Thus we looked if a change of curriculum could have an effect on the way they define those words. Our results were consistent with the previous ones. We obtained that trainees linked the concept of attributes with something vague, ill-defined, whereas measurement concept is related to something precise. Second, we used another test in which the trainees had to reason about the number of data to collect and the way to make a decision about measurement values. Our results showed two dimensions. When trainees reasoned about measurement data, they mostly thought that collecting several values was necessary to define a measurement value. Also, they noticed that error sources are necessary to be taken into account to enhance the measurement process and obtain better measurement values.
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hal-03079125 , version 1 (08-07-2021)

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Clément Maisch. Conception about "measurement" and "attribute" of pre-service primary school teachers in France.. ESERA, Aug 2019, Bologna, Italy. ⟨hal-03079125⟩
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