Computer or Paper? That Is the Question: Does the Medium in Which Assessment Questions Are Presented Affect Children's Performance in Mathematics?

Autor/inn/en	Hargreaves, Melanie; Shorrocks-Taylor, Diane; Swinnerton, Bronwen; Tait, Kenneth; Threlfall, John
Titel	Computer or Paper? That Is the Question: Does the Medium in Which Assessment Questions Are Presented Affect Children's Performance in Mathematics?
Quelle	In: Educational Research, 46 (2004) 1, S.29-42 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1881
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Foreign Countries; Elementary School Mathematics; Elementary School Students; Scores; Student Evaluation; Evaluation Methods; Computer Assisted Testing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Elementare Mathematik; Schulmathematik; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung
Abstract	This paper reports on the results of a study of English children's performance on a computer mathematics assessment compared with a pencil-and-paper assessment. Two matched samples of children were each assessed on one of two mathematics pencil-and-paper tests and assessed a month later on a cloned computer test. The performance scores were better on the computer tests than on the pencil-and-paper tests, although this was not statistically significant in every case. The paper goes on to discuss some of the differences between performance and approach to the question between the two media, and explores possible reasons for these differences. In conclusion, the computer tests were found to have an overall positive effect on children's performance, although not for every child and, in some instances, the computer assessment limited the way in which a question could be answered. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10