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| Abstract : Perpustakaan Tuanku Bainun |
| The purpose of this study was to assess pre-service secondary mathematics teachers_ van Hiele levels of geometric thinking using the Van Hiele Geometry Test. The 25-item, multiple-choice, paper-and-pencil test was developed by the Cognitive Development and Achievement in Secondary School Geometry Project based on the van Hiele Theory of Geometric Thinking. The participants comprised 147 pre-service secondary mathematics teachers who attended a mathematics teaching methods course in a Malaysian public university. The data were analysed based on the _4 of 5 criterion_ to minimise the chance of a student being at a level by guessing. The results showed that 16 (10.9%) of the participants were at Level 0, 52 (35.4%) were at Level 1, 62 (42.2%) were at Level 2, 9 (6.1%) were at Level 3, 1 (0.7%) were at Level 4, none (0.0%) was at Level 5, and 7 (4.8%) could not be assigned a van Hiele level because their responses did not fit the _4 of 5 criterion._ Most of the participants were at or below van Hiele Level 2. Very few participants were at van Hiele Level 3 which is the minimum level for pre-service secondary mathematics teachers to teach geometry because the Malaysian secondary school geometry contents are up to Level 3.
Keywords Van Hiele levels of geometric thinking, Van Hiele Geometry Test, Pre-service secondary mathematics teachers |
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