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Primary Source Projects and Reading Apprenticeship in Mathematics History: Appendix — Student Survey

Author(s): 
Jennifer Clinkenbeard (California State University, Monterey Bay)

 

The first ten questions in this survey are Likert scale items, with the response options Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Agree, and Strongly Agree. The RA skills and dimensions are taken from the RA Framework depicted in Figure 5.

Questionnaire Item

RA Skill

RA Dimension
  1. I felt confident in my ability to make sense of difficult mathematical tasks.

Reader confidence and range

Personal Dimension
  1. I was able to persist through challenges that I encountered while working on the PSPs.

Reader fluency and stamina
  1. I felt motivated to read and learn while working on the PSPs.

Reader identity
  1. After completing a PSP, I can give a thirty-second verbal summary of the big ideas from it.

Getting the big picture

  

Cognitive Dimension

 

 
  1. I was able to break down big ideas into smaller ones while reading.

Breaking it down
  1. The PSPs helped me to develop problem-solving strategies to support my reading comprehension.

Using problem solving strategies

  1. I was able to make connections to things I already knew while reading and working on the PSP tasks.

Building knowledge of content

Knowledge Building
  1. I learned new concepts and ideas from reading and working on the PSP tasks.

Building knowledge of content
  1. The peer review process for the PSP writing projects helped me to build community with my classmates.

Noticing others’ ways of reading

Social
  1. I was able to contribute to small group problem solving discussions on the PSPs.

Sharing reading processes, problems, and solutions
  1. (Open ended) How did using RA routines, such as Talk to the Text, help you to make sense of PSPs?
  1. (Open ended) How did using RA routines help you to make sense of other reading material from the course?
  1. (Open ended) What was your most memorable experience while working on the Primary Source Projects in Math History?
  1. (Open ended) In your opinion, what are some benefits and challenges of learning about math history via primary sources?

 

Jennifer Clinkenbeard (California State University, Monterey Bay), "Primary Source Projects and Reading Apprenticeship in Mathematics History: Appendix — Student Survey," Convergence (November 2023)

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