Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia · 2010 · 90 citations · 10 references
EducationLiteracy EducationMathematics EducationMathematics InstructionReading ComprehensionReading DevelopmentLiteracy InstructionMathematical Learning DifficultiesMathematical ReadingNumber SenseNumeracy DevelopmentReadingAssessment Error AnalysisCount Error AnalysisError Analysis In ArithmeticLiteracy FrameworksNumber Sense AssessmentNumeracy RemediationPre-post ComparisonRemedial Numeracy Instruction
Newman (1977, 1983) defined five specific literacy and numeracy skills as crucial to performance on mathematical word problems: reading, comprehension, transformation, process skills, and encoding. Newman’s Error Analysis (NEA) provided a framework for considering the reasons that underlay the difficulties students experienced with mathematical word problems and a process that assisted teachers to determine where misunderstandings occurred. NEA also provided directions for where teachers could target effective teaching strategies to overcome them. NEA experienced a reawakening in Australia and has been included in a number of programs such as the Counting On program in the Australian state of New South Wales. This paper presents findings of a pre-post test given to 1213 students participating in the 2008 Counting On program and examines NEA as a diagnostic tool linking numeracy and literacy and will discuss how teachers have also used NEA as a remediation and general classroom pedagogical strategy for primary and secondary schools.
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