PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2017
San Diego, California
Reducing abstraction in the Group Concept Inventory
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In this poster we report on results from the Group Concept Inventory (GCI), a conceptualassessment for introductory group theory students. Over 400 students from thirty institutions tookthe inventory. We use the framework of reducing abstraction (Hazzan, 1999) to situate studentresponses. We found that students frequently reduced abstraction (in a multitude of ways) whendealing with fundamental concepts in group theory.Keywords: Abstract algebra, Reducing abstraction, Concept inventory