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Analyzing Mathematical Literacy of Junior High School Students in West Sumatra

2014

The aim of the research was to describe mathematical literacy of junior high school students in West Sumatra Indonesia. The description was focused on the competences clusters mentioned by Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), namely reproduction, connection, and reflection cluster. Based on the description, it was analyzed the factors that have influenced mathematical literacy of the students. The method used in the research was a mixing method (descriptive and qualitative). Data was collected from 188 Junior High School students who participated in Mathematical Literacy contest in West Sumatra. The results of the research show that most students only master reproduction cluster and very few of them that master reflection cluster. For each cluster, the score of most students are very low. In addition, mathematical abilities of the students are not satisfactory.

Mathematical literacy of senior high school students in Yogyakarta

Jurnal Riset Pendidikan Matematika

The aim of this research is to describe mathematical literacy of Senior High School students in Yogyakarta. This research was a survey using quantitative design. The population was all of Senior High School students in Yogyakarta. The sampling was a combination of stratified random sampling and cluster random sampling. The sample was 813 students the 10th grade of Senior High School. These schools include high, average and low category based on the score in the national examination of mathematics subject. The data collection was by a test. The student was tested with 13 items of mathematical literacy problems. The analysis of those data used descriptive statistics including mean, standard deviation, maximum and minimum score, total score, and also test statistics z (). The research finding reveals that mathematical literacy of Senior High School students in Yogyakarta is in a very low category. Mathematical literacy of Senior High School students for understanding indicator belong t...

An analysis of mathematical literacy of state junior high school students in Kupang

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2020

This survey was conducted to describe the mathematical literacy of state junior high school students in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara province. Not only was it done due to the low performances of Indonesian 15-year-old students in PISA but also since there was not any research studies that had been done before to map the mathematical literacy of 15-year-old students in Kupang. This study used two-stage cluster randomized sampling to choose six-state junior high schools representing six sub-districts around Kupang. A total of 377 ninth-grade students were selected to become the respondents in this survey. They were tested using fifteen mathematical literacy problems directly adopted from PISA 2012 and some development researches items. The results showed that the mathematical literacy of state junior high school students in Kupang generally was in a low category. When we looked into three process domains as well as four content domains, the math literacy of students was also classified ...

Mathematical literacy profile of primary school students

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (I-CMME) 2021

Many types of research related to mathematical literacy have been carried out, but those focusing on primary schools were still rare. This study aims to describe the mathematical literacy profile of primary school students in Sragen, Central Java, Indonesia. The research method was quantitative. A mathematical literacy test with aspects, content, and context relevant to primary school-age students was used to obtain data. One hundred twelve students from five primary schools have taken the test. The results showed that students' mathematical literacy was low, with mean score of 44.036 out of 100. The achievement for the formulating aspect was 38%, the employing aspect was 53%, and the interpreting aspect was 36%. The students' mean scores were also compared based on age and gender. The statistical analysis results showed no significant difference in mathematical literacy between 11, 12, and 13 years old, the same as between female and male students.

The Mathematical Literacy Skills of Muhammadiyah Elementary School Students in Sleman Regency

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Community Development (ICCD 2019), 2019

This study aims to describe the literacy skills of Muhammadiyah elementary school students in Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta. The population of this study was grade 4 students at Muhammadiyah elementary school in Sleman Regency. The samples of this study were 395 students taken from 16 Muhammadiyah elementary schools of each district in Sleman Regency using cluster random sampling technique. The data collection technique used mathematical literacy test instruments that had been tested for their validity and reliability. The results showed that the mathematical literacy skills of students at Muhammadiyah elementary schools in Sleman Regency were still in low. Mathematical literacy skills of Muhammadiyah Elementary School students in Sleman Regency in the domain of formulating mathematical situations were in the moderate category. It means the process domain by using concepts, facts, procedures, and mathematical reasoning as well as the process domain of interpreting, implementing, and evaluating mathematical results were in the low category.

The Development of Students’ Mathematical Literacy Proficiency

Problems of Education in the 21st Century

Improving the proficiency in mathematical literacy is one of the efforts to improve the human resources quality. Its development describes the students’ strengths and weaknesses to support the improvement. The research tried to describe the development of students’ proficiency in mathematical literacy, based on the school level and the students’ gender. The research was a cross-sectional developmental study. The population was all of students ranging between 13 and 16 years old in the Province of Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. In the sample were 1,001 students in the 8th, 9th and 10th grade, determined to use the combination of stratified and the cluster random sampling technique. The data were collected using 30 items. The data analysis was conducted by estimating students’ ability through the item-response theory approach under the Rasch model and by using the parameters that had been adjusted to the international study item parameter under the concordance model for the lin...

An Analysis of Student’s Mathematical Literacy Ability of Junior High School Students

2018

This research aims to describe the ability of student’s mathematical literacy consisting of four contents, namely space and shape, change and relationship, quantity, and uncertainly. Next, it is defined on which the lowest content of student's ability, how the perform of students on the process of literacy and basic skills of mathematics, and what causes students are not able to provide correct answers to the certain problem. By knowing where the weaknesses of students on certain mathematical literacy content will make us better know which content should be more taught. This research used the qualitative descriptive method, with research subjects consisting of six students of class VII SMP Negeri 2 Pacitan which selected using purposive sampling. The instruments which used to explore the ability of mathematical literacy of students in the form of written tests followed by interviews. The results showed the ability of mathematical literacy in term of space and shape content of 13...

Mathematical Literacy: A Case Study on Padang Students' Mathematical Ability

Al-Jabar : Jurnal Pendidikan Matematika, 2021

This study aims to analyze student mathematical literacy ability from the perspective of students' Mathematical Ability. This research is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. The research subjects were three students of XI IPA 1 MAN 1 Padang with different mathematical abilities: low, medium, and high. Data were collected through documentation, tests, and interviews. The results of the analysis show that students with high abilities can solve routine problems, interpret problems and solve them with formulas, carry out procedures well, can deal with complex situations, use their reasoning in solving problems, can work effectively and interpret different representations and then relate them to the real world. Students with moderate abilities can solve routine problems, interpret problems and solve them with formulas, and carry out procedures properly. Meanwhile, students with low abilities are only able to solve routine questions. Based on these results, it is necessar...

Towards Mathematical Literacy in the 21st Century: Perspectives from Indonesia

Southeast Asian Mathematics Education Journal

The notion of mathematical literacy advocated by PISA (OECD, 2006) offers a broader conception for assessing mathematical competences and processes with the main focus on the relevant use of mathematics in life. This notion of mathematical literacy is closely connected to the notion of mathematical modelling whereby mathematics is put to solving real world problems. Indonesia has participated as a partner country in PISA since 2000. The PISA trends in mathematics from 2003 to 2009 revealed unsatisfactory mathematical literacy among 15-year-old students from Indonesia who lagged behind the average of OECD countries. In this paper, exemplary cases will be discussed to examine and to promote mathematical literacy at teacher education level. Lesson ideas and instruments were adapted from PISA released items 2006. The potential of such tasks will be discussed based on case studies of implementing these instruments with samples of pre-service teachers in Yogyakarta.

Indonesian Students’ Mathematical Literacy And Attitude

International Journal of Educational Research and Social Sciences, 2022

This study aimed to analyze gender differences in mathematical literacy and attitude among secondary school students in Indonesia. This study also assessed the correlation between mathematical literacy and attitude. Secondary data set of PISA Mathematic 2012 was used in this study. The participants of the survey were 5622 Indonesian secondary school students (2860 females and 2762 males). The findings of this study were as follows. Firstly, the study found evidence that compared to females (m=22.6%), male students (m=23.2%) had significantly higher scores in mathematical literacy (p  0.001, t =-1.630, df = 5542.617). Secondly. there was no difference between male (m=3.07) and female students (m=3.06) in mathematical attitude (p = 0.73, t = 0.431, df = 3716). Lastly, this study found that there were no linear correlations between mathematical literacy and attitude (p = 0.982, r < 0.001).